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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish comrac (“meeting, encounter”). Cognate with Welsh cyfrang (“rencounter”) and Lithuanian rinkti (“gather, assemble”).
Pronunciation
Noun
còmhrag f (genitive singular còmhraig or còmhraige, plural còmhragan)
- conflict, combat, fight
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| còmhrag |
chòmhrag
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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
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “còmhrag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN