mìlsean

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See also: milseán

Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish millsén (sweetmeat, delicacy) (compare modern Irish milseán). By surface analysis, milis (sweet) +‎ -an (diminutive suffix).

Noun

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mìlsean m (genitive singular mìlsein, plural mìlseanan)

  1. dessert, pudding, confection, sweet (course)

See also

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Mutation

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mìlsean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millsén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language