ceò

See also: ceo, CEO, ceó, and céo

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish céo,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kiwos (“fog”),[2] from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱih₃-wó-s (“gray”), from *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness, shadow”).

Celtic relatives include Manx kay and Irish ceo; more distant cognates include Sanskrit श्या॒व (śyāvá, “dark brown”) and Russian си́вый (sívyj, “gray”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰʲɔː/

Noun

ceò m or f (genitive singular ceò or ceòtha or ceòthadh, no plural)

  1. fog, mist, haze
  2. (Lewis, Harris, North Uist, Skye, Ross-shire) smoke
    Synonyms: toit, deathach

Mutation

Mutation of ceò
radical lenition
ceò cheò

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “kiw-o”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 205
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