tàillear

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare modern Irish táilliúir, Manx thalhear), borrowed from Anglo-Norman taillour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.

Noun

tàillear m (genitive singular tàilleir, plural tàillearan)

1. tailor

Mutation

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “táilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language