smeòrach
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish smolach, from Proto-Celtic *smugal-. Compare Irish smólach (“thrush”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”).
Breton Moualc'h (f) "blackbirdd" (Turdus merula).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smeòrach f (genitive singular smeòraich, plural smeòraichean)
- (bird): thrush
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “smeòrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “smeòrach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN