àingleach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ainglecda, ainglech (“angelic”), from aingel (“angel”). By surface analysis, aingeal (“angel”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

àingleach

1. angelic

   Synonyms: aingealach, ainglidh, ainglidheach

2. igneous

Mutation

Mutation of àingleach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
àingleach	n-àingleach	h-àingleach	t-àingleach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “àingleach”, 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), “ainglech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language