cuarantain

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English quarantine, from Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port.

Noun

cuarantain m (genitive singular cuarantain, plural cuarantain)

1. quarantine

Derived terms

• ospadal cuarantain (“quarantine hospital”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cuarantain	chuarantain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.