aodach

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish étach (compare modern Irish éadach).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aodach m (genitive singular aodaich, plural aodaichean)

  1. clothes, dress
    cuir ort d' aodachput on your clothes
  2. cloth, material
    aodach sa bheairtcloth in the loom
  3. (nautical) sails (collectively)

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aodach n-aodach h-aodach t-aodach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “aodach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC