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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish accarsóit (“anchorage”), borrowed from Old Norse .
Noun
acarsaid f (genitive singular acarsaide, plural acarsaidean)
- (nautical) port, harbour, haven; anchorage, mooring
- Synonyms: cala, port
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “acarsaid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accarsóit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language