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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish srubán, srúbán m (“thin cake of bread, small loaf; cockle”), possibly from srúb n (“snout, muzzle, beak, nose”).
Noun
srùban f (genitive singular srùbain, plural srùbain)
- Diminutive of srùb
- cockle
Synonyms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| srùban |
shrùban
after "an", t-srùban
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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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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “srùban”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “srubán, srúbán ?, sreabán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language