cangaru

See also: cangarú

Scottish Gaelic

Cangaru.

Etymology

Borrowed from English kangaroo. Compare Irish cangarú.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaŋkəɾu/
• Hyphenation: can‧ga‧ru

Noun

cangaru m (genitive singular cangaru, plural cangaruthan)

1. kangaroo

Declension

Declension of cangaru (type III masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cangaru	cangaruthan
Genitive	cangaru	changaruthan
Dative	cangaru	cangaruthan
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) cangaru	(na) cangaruthan
Genitive	(a') changaru	(nan) cangaruthan
Dative	(a') changaru	(na) cangaruthan
Vocative	(a) changaru	(a) changaruthan

Mutation

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

References

• Colin Mark (2003) “cangaru”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 112