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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Perhaps from Old Norse ljóða hús (literally “song house”), though that may be a folk etymology.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Leòdhas m (genitive Leòdhais)
- Lewis (an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar council area, Scotland)
- Synonyms: Eilean Leòdhais, Eilean an Fhraoich
- Leòdhasach (“person from Lewis; pertaining to Lewis”)
Descendants
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath