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Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic tarmachan.
Pronunciation
Noun
tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, nominative plural tarmachain)
- ptarmigan
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tarmachan
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tharmachan
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dtarmachan
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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
Unknown, but compare tàrmachadh (“originating, producing”), from Old Irish tórmach.[1] MacBain suggests an imitative base tarm (“murmur”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, plural tarmachanan)
- ptarmigan
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Skeat, W. W. (1882). An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language: Arranged on an Historical Basis. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, p. 475
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàrmachan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN