uirsgeul
See also: ùirsgeul
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- ùirsgeul
- uisgeul
- ùr-sgeul
Etymology
ùr- + sgeul
Noun
uirsgeul m (genitive singular uirsgeil, plural uirsgeulan)
- legend, myth; tale, romance; fable, folktale; novel
- news, intelligence
- recent account
- tale of recent times, modern tale
- fiction (type of literature)
- blarney
Synonyms
- (fiction): ficsean
Derived terms
- uirsgeulach (“fictional; legendary”)
- uirsgeulachd f (“fiction”)
- ùirsgeulaiche m (“novelist”)
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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