srùban

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish srubán, srúbán m (“thin cake of bread, small loaf; cockle”), possibly from srúb n (“snout, muzzle, beak, nose”).

Noun

srùban f (genitive singular srùbain, plural srùbain)

1. diminutive of srùb
2. cockle

Synonyms

• coilleag

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
srùban	shrùban after "an", t-srùban
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “srùban”, 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), “srubán, srúbán ?, sreabán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language