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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cíallach. By surface analysis, ciall (“mind, sanity; sense, reason”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ciallach (genitive singular masculine ciallaich, comparative ciallaiche)
- rational, sensible
Derived terms
Mutation
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Lenition
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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) “ciallach”, 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), “cíallach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language