grìbhean
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gríb (“griffin”) + -an (compare Irish gríobhán).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grìbhean m (genitive singular grìbhein, plural grìbheanan)
- griffin
- Synonyms: grìbhinneach, leòmhann-chraobh
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
grìbhean | ghrìbhean |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “grìbhean”, 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), “gríb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language