Lunnainn
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English Lunden, from Latin Londīnium. Compare Irish Londain.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Lunnainn
- London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England)
References
[edit]- ^ Holmer, Nils M. (1938), Studies on Argyllshire Gaelic, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-A.-B., page 187
- ^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 421
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Lundain(n)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old English
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Latin
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic proper nouns
- gd:London
- gd:Cities in the United Kingdom
- gd:National capitals
- gd:Places in the United Kingdom
- gd:Cities in England
- gd:Places in England