mèirleach
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish meirlech (“a robber, a bandit”); synchronically, mèirle + -ach.
Noun
mèirleach m (genitive singular mèirlich, plural mèirlich)
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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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