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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish gíallaid (“gives hostages, obeys, submits; serves, is in base clientship”).
Pronunciation
Verb
gèill (past ghèill, future gèillidh, verbal noun gèilleadh, past participle gèillte)
- surrender, submit, yield, cede, give up, comply
- serve, obey, do homage
- fail
- break gradually under strain or pressure
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) “gèill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gíallaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language