duilleagach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• duilleabhrach

Etymology

From Middle Irish duilleógach. By surface analysis, duilleag (“leaf”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

duilleagach (genitive singular masculine duilleagaich, comparative duilleagaiche)

1. leafy, abounding in leaves, having foliage
2. in folds, as a door

Derived terms

• eidheann-duilleagach (“ivy-leaved”)
• geug-dhuilleagach f (“frond”)
• searbhag dhuilleagach f (“folic acid”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “duilleagach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duilleógach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language