ainleag
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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish áilleóc, fainleóc (compare Irish fáinleog), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel, fannall, from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish guennol, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesr-/wesn- (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).
Noun
ainleag f (genitive singular ainleige, plural ainleagan)[1]
Derived terms
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language