Gàidheal

See also: Gaidheal

Scottish Gaelic

From Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), from Proto-Brythonic *Guɨðel (the ancestor of Welsh gwyddel (“raider”)), from Proto-Celtic *weidelos (“savage, woodsman”), related to Scottish Gaelic fiadh (“deer”) through native Goidelic development, from *weidus (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”) (compare Old English wāþ (“hunt”)).^[1]

Gàidheal m (genitive singular Gàidheil, plural Gàidheil)

Mutation of *Gàidheal*
radical	lenition
Gàidheal	Ghàidheal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 85
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