cuidheall
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots quhel, quheil (“wheel”) (compare Manx queeyl and Antrim Irish cuidhil).
Noun
cuidheall f (genitive singular cuidhill or cuidhle, plural cuidhleachan)
- wheel
- coil
- spinning wheel
- reel, yarn-windlass
- whirl, whirling, reeling
- cock of hay
- circle
- circular motion
Derived terms
- cuidheall-shnìomha f (“spinning wheel”)
- saor-chuidhleachan m (“wheelwright”)
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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