mèirleach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish meirlech (“a robber, a bandit”); synchronically, mèirle +‎ -ach.

Noun

mèirleach m (genitive singular mèirlich, plural mèirlich)

1. thief

   Synonym: gadaiche

Derived terms

• frìth-mhèirleach

Mutation

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 meirlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language