Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From corra + Old Irish grith (shout, scream) + -ach.

Noun

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corra-ghritheach f (genitive singular corra-ghrithich, plural corran-ghritheach)

  1. heron, grey heron; stork; crane

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
corra-ghritheach chorra-ghritheach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “corra-ghritheach”, 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), “grith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language