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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From pailt (“plentiful”) + làmhach (“handed”).
Adjective
pailt-làmhach (comparative pailt-làmhaiche)
- liberal, generous
1917, A.M.E., “Ceist An Ionmhais”, in Guth na bliadhna, volume 14, page 136: […] cha dùth dha a bhi fialuidh no pailt-làmhach a thaobh nam feadhnach againne. Chan eil sinne a' faighinn uair sam bith ach an spruidhleach a thuiteas o a bhòrd-san.- He doesn't have to be hospitable or generous towards us. We are only ever getting the crumbs that fall from his table.
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| pailt-làmhach |
phailt-làmhach
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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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