ainleag

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • aileag, aimhleig, ainlinn, ainnleag, amhlag, annlag, falbhag, fainleag, fainnleag, fairleag, fanlag, fannlag

Etymology

From Middle Irish áilleóc,[1] fainleóc[2] (compare Irish fáinleog), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel, fannall, from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish gwennel, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesr-/wesn- (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).

Noun

ainleag f (genitive singular ainleige, plural ainleagan)

  1. swallow, barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)[3]
  2. swift
  3. martin
  4. stormy petrel

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^  ; accessed on 3 Feb 2015

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “ainleag”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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