càmhal

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • cam-all, càmhul, gàmal

Etymology

From Old Irish camall, from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kãː.əl̪ˠ/

Noun

càmhal m (genitive singular càmhail, plural càmhail)

  1. camel

Derived terms

  • càmhal Bactriach (“Bactrian camel”)

Mutation

Mutation of càmhal
radical lenition
càmhal chàmhal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “càmhal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “camall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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