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Irish
Noun
sluagh m (genitive singular sluaigh, nominative plural sluaigh or sluaighte)
- Obsolete form of slua.
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| sluagh
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shluagh
after an, tsluagh
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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 Middle Irish slúagh, from Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.
Pronunciation
Noun
sluagh m (genitive singular sluaigh, plural slòigh)
- community, crowd, folk
- people, populace, population, public
- multitude
Usage notes
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.