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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfalam/
- Hyphenation: failm
Noun
failm f
- (nautical) helm; tiller
Declension
Declension of failm (class IIb feminine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| failm |
fhailm
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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
- Colin Mark (2003) “failm”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 276