mèirleach

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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)

  1. thief
    Synonym: gadaiche

Declension

Declension of mèirleach (type I masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative mèirleach mèirlich
genitive mèirlich mhèirleach
dative mèirleach mèirlich; mèirleachaibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (am) mèirleach (na) mèirlich
genitive (a') mhèirlich (nam) mèirleach
dative (a') mhèirleach (na) mèirlich; mèirleachaibh✝
vocative mhèirlich mhèirleacha

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of mèirleach
radical lenition
mèirleach mhèirleach

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

Further reading

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Donald A. Morrison (2020) Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic (Thesis)‎, Manchester: University of Manchester
  3. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
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