miùg

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish medc, from Proto-Celtic *mezgos.

Pronunciation

Noun

miùg m (genitive singular miùig)

  1. (Benbecula, South Uist, Barra) whey

Mutation

Mutation of miùg
radical lenition
miùg mhiùg

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap