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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish líaig (“leech, doctor, physician”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lèigh m (genitive singular lèigh, plural lèighean)
- doctor, surgeon, physician
Synonyms
Noun
lèigh m (genitive singular lèighe, plural lèighean)
- medicine
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish léige.
Noun
lèigh
- genitive singular of liogh
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| lèigh |
unchanged
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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) “lèigh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 líaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language