facal

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish focul, from Proto-Celtic *woxtlom, from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷtlom, from *wekʷ-.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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facal m (genitive singular facail, plural faclan)

  1. word
  2. language
  3. comment, phrase

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Stüber, Karin (1998). The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic. Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, p. 70. →ISBN.