orainsear

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots oranger (“orange fruit”),[1] possibly from Old French oranger (“orange tree”)[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

orainsear m (genitive singular orainsear, plural orainsearan)

  1. orange (fruit)

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutation of orainsear
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
orainsear n-orainsear h-orainsear t-orainsear

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

References

  1. ^ “orains” in Faclair na Gàidhlig
  2. ^ “oranger”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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