bìrlinn

See also: birlinn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish beirling, borrowed from Old Norse byrðingr (compare Irish birling, Manx birling), from byrðr (“burden”) +‎ -ingr, from Proto-Germanic *burþį̄.

Noun

bìrlinn f (genitive singular bìrlinn, plural bìrlinnean)

1. galley (ship)

Descendants

• → English: birlinn

Mutation

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “beirling”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language