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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish séol (“sail; bed, couch; weaving implement, loom; course; manner, way”), a borrowing from Old English seġl, seġel, from Proto-West Germanic *segl.
The verb is from Middle Irish seólaid.
Pronunciation
Noun
seòl m (genitive singular siùil, plural siùil)
- sail
Derived terms
Verb
seòl (past sheòl, future seòlaidh, verbal noun seòladh, past participle seòlta)
- sail, cruise
- aim, direct, guide, instruct, direct, govern
- navigate
Conjugation
- Participles
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
- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap