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The following words are of Goidelic origin but it cannot be ascertained whether the source language was Old Irish or one of the modern Goidelic languages.. Brogue [1] An accent, Irish, or Scottish Gaelic bròg, shoe (of a particular kind worn by Irish and Gaelic peasants), Old Irish bróc, from Norse brókr [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin; Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997; M.
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), 12 volumes; Scottish National Dictionary (SND), 10 volumes; The DOST contains information about Older Scots words in use from the 12th to the end of the 17th centuries (Early and Middle Scots); SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (Modern Scots).
Scottish Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k /, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish ...
These lists of English words of Celtic origin include English words derived from Celtic origins. These are, for example, Common Brittonic , Gaulish , Irish , Scottish Gaelic , Welsh , or other languages.
Many word-final consonants have also disappeared in the evolution of Scottish Gaelic, and some traces of them can be observed in the form of prosthetic or linking consonants ( n-, h-, t- , etc.) that appear in some syntactic combinations, for example, after some determiners (see below).
1901 Illustrated Gaelic English Dictionary by Edward Dwelly (based partly on MacLeod & Dewar) 1912 Am Briathrachan Beag by Malcolm MacFarlane; 1925 Gaelic Dictionary by Malcolm MacLennan; 1932 Pronouncing Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic by Henry Cyril Dieckhoff; 1958 Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist and Eriskay by Rev. Allan MacDonald
List of English words of Scots origin (i.e. Lowland Scots (Lallans, Doric etc.)) List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin Topics referred to by the same term