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Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cù-donn m (genitive singular coin-duinn, plural coin-donna)
- (East Sutherland) otter
- Synonyms: biast-dubh, dòbhran, dobhar-chù, (Islay) biast-donn, (Argyll, Arran) madadh-donn
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| cù-donn |
chù-donn
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cù-donn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN