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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From corra + Old Irish grith (“shout, scream”) + -ach.
Noun
corra-ghritheach f (genitive singular corra-ghrithich, plural corran-ghritheach)
- heron, grey heron; stork; crane
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “corra-ghritheach”, 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), “grith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language