caileag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From caile (“vulgar girl, quean, hussy, strumpet, maid servant”) +‎ -ag (“diminutive”). From Old Irish caile (“maid”); compare Breton plac’h (“girl”); Ancient Greek παλλακή (pallakḗ, “concubine”), Latin pellex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰalak/

Noun

caileag f (genitive singular caileige, plural caileagan)

1. A girl, a lass, and especially one who has not yet left childhood.

Mutation

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

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “caileag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN