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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cruithnecht, from a compound whose second element is Proto-Celtic *nixtos (“winnowed, wheat”) (compare Welsh gwe-nith (“wheat”) from *uɸo-nixtos), from Proto-Indo-European *neyk- (“to winnow”). Cognate with Irish cruithneacht and Manx curnaght.
Pronunciation
Noun
cruithneachd f
- wheat
Derived terms
Mutation
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Lenition
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| cruithneachd |
chruithneachd
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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) “cruithneachd”, 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), “cruithnecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language