pailt-làmhach
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pailt (“plentiful”) + làmhach (“handed”).
Adjective
[edit]pailt-làmhach (comparative pailt-làmhaiche)
- liberal, generous
- 1917, A.M.E., “Ceist An Ionmhais”, in Guth na bliadhna, volume 14, page 136:
- […] cha dùth dha a bhi fialuidh no pailt-làmhach a thaobh nam feadhnach againne. Chan eil sinne a' faighinn uair sam bith ach an spruidhleach a thuiteas o a bhòrd-san.
- He doesn't have to be hospitable or generous towards us. We are only ever getting the crumbs that fall from his table.
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
pailt-làmhach | phailt-làmhach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |