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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish bairille, from Middle English barrell or Anglo-Norman baril.
Noun
baraill m (genitive singular baraille, plural baraillean)
- barrel, cask
- Synonym: togsaid
- leann baraille ― draught beer
- barrel (of a gun)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| baraill |
bharaill
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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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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “baraill”, 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), “bairille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language