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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish fíacail. Cognate with Irish fiacail and Manx feeackle.
Pronunciation
Noun
fiacaill f (genitive singular fiacla, plural fiaclan)
- tooth
- Synonym: deud
- cog (on a gear)
- pin (of an electric plug)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| fiacaill |
fhiacaill
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “fiacaill”, 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), “fíacail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language