caileag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From caile (“vulgar girl, quean, hussy, strumpet, maid servant”) +‎ -ag (“diminutive”). From Old Irish caile (“maid”); compare Breton plac’h (“girl”); Ancient Greek παλλακή (pallakḗ, “concubine”), Latin pellex.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰalak/

Noun

caileag f (genitive singular caileige, plural caileagan)

  1. A girl, a lass, and especially one who has not yet left childhood.

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
caileagchaileag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “caileag”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
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