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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Irish birling, Manx birling), from byrðr (“burden”) + -ingr, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄.
Noun
bìrlinn f (genitive singular bìrlinn, plural bìrlinnean)
- galley (ship)
Descendants
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| bìrlinn |
bhìrlinn
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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