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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Norse Sumarliði, from sumar (“summer”) + liði (“one who goes, fares”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Somhairle m (genitive Shomhairle, vocative a Shomhairle)
- a male given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Sorley
Derived terms
References
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh