uinneag
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish fuindeóc, from Old Norse vindauga (literally “wind's eye”) (compare Scots winnock, English window, from Old English windaége).
Noun
uinneag f (genitive singular uinneige, plural uinneagan)
- (architecture) window
- Dùin an uinneag. ― Close the window.
- uinneagan nèimh ― windows of heaven
- a' gearradh a-mach uinneagan ― cutting out windows
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- (architecture, obsolete) Recess in the wall of a kitchen used as a repository for miscellaneous articles.
Derived terms
Terms derived from uinneag
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Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| uinneag | n-uinneag | h-uinneag | t-uinneag |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
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
- “fuindeóc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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