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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish Muircath, from muir (“sea”) + cath (“battle”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Murchadh m (genitive Mhurchaidh, vocative a Mhurchaidh, diminutive Murchan or Murdaidh or Murdanaidh or Murdaigean)
- a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Murdo or Murdoch
Descendants
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh