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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish meirlech (“a robber, a bandit”). By surface analysis, mèirle + -ach.
Pronunciation
Noun
mèirleach m (genitive singular mèirlich, plural mèirlich)
- thief
- Synonym: gadaiche
Declension
Declension of mèirleach (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Donald A. Morrison (2020) Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic (Thesis), Manchester: University of Manchester
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh