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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish dúiscid, from Old Irish do·díuschi (“awakens, brings back to life”) (compare modern Irish dúisc).
Pronunciation
Verb
dùisg (past dhùisg, future dùisgidh, verbal noun dùsgadh, past participle dùisgte)
- wake, rouse, rise, awaken
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| dùisg |
dhùisg
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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) “dùisg”, 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), “dúisigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language