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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From sìol (“seed”) + -radh (“collective suffix”) (compare Irish síolradh).
Noun
sìolradh m (genitive singular sìolraidh, plural sìolraidhean)
- race, breed
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sìolradh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sílrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language