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Irish
Noun
samhla f
- genitive singular of samhail (“likeness, image; model, mock-up; effigy; simile”)
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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samhla
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shamhla after an, tsamhla
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not applicable
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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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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish samla (“likeness, similarity, that with which a thing may be compared”).
Pronunciation
Noun
samhla m (genitive singular samhlaidh, plural samhlaidhean)
- resemblance, likeness
- sign, symbol
- simile
- allegory, parable
- apparition, (ghostly) doppelganger
Derived terms
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) “samhla”, 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), “1 samla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language