Leòdhas
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Old Norse ljóða hús (literally “song house”), though that may be a folk etymology.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editLeòdhas m (genitive Leòdhais)
- Lewis (an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar council area, Scotland)
- Synonyms: Eilean Leòdhais, Eilean an Fhraoich
Related terms
edit- Leòdhasach (“person from Lewis; pertaining to Lewis”)
Descendants
edit- → English: Lewis
References
edit- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap