soillsean

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɤi̯ʎʃan/
  • Hyphenation: soill‧sean

Etymology 1[edit]

Cognate with Irish soillsean.

Noun[edit]

soillsean m (genitive singular soillsein, plural soillseanan)

  1. torch, taper
  2. tinsel (something shining and gaudy)
Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

soillsean

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) plural of soillse

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
soillsean shoillsean
after "an", t-soillsean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  • “Tinsel”, in A Dictionary of the Gaelic language, The Highland Society of Scotland, 1828, page 808
  • Norman MacLeod, Daniel Dewar (1866) “Torch”, in A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, page 959
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “soillsean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (1996) Selected poems, Scottish Academic Press, page 217