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Scottish Gaelic

[ skot-ish gol-ikor, often, gey-lik ]

noun

  1. the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia. : ScotGael, Scot. Gael.


Scottish Gaelic

noun

  1. the Goidelic language of the Celts of Scotland, spoken in the Highlands and Western Isles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Auld lang syne” is Scottish-Gaelic for “old long since,” or, more idiomatically, “days gone by” or “time long past.

It seems now to be agreed that the various dialects of Scottish Gaelic fall into two main divisions—northern and southern.

The utility of a Grammar of the Scottish Gaelic will be variously appreciated.

This solecism is found in the Irish as well as in the Scottish Gaelic translation.

Manx is a dialect mainly Celtic, and differing only slightly from the ancient Scottish Gaelic.

I have sometimes, in the second part of the book, used stories preserved in the Scottish Gaelic, as will be seen by my references.

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