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Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands
The main language spoken in Scotland is English, while Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English.
GAELIC
The Celtic languages of Scotland can be divided into two groups: Goidelic (or Gaelic) and Brittonic (or Brythonic). The majority of the vocabulary of Scottish Gaelic is native Celtic. Like other Indo-European languages, the neologisms which are coined for modern concepts are typically based on Greek or Latin,
Gaelic was commonly believed to have been brought to Scotland, in the 4th–5th centuries CE, by settlers from Ireland who founded the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata on Scotland's west coast in present-day Argyll.
The 2011 UK Census showed a total of 57,375 Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
The words in the list include both Gaelic words and words based on Gaelic.
GAELIC
The Celtic languages of Scotland can be divided into two groups: Goidelic (or Gaelic) and Brittonic (or Brythonic). The majority of the vocabulary of Scottish Gaelic is native Celtic. Like other Indo-European languages, the neologisms which are coined for modern concepts are typically based on Greek or Latin,
Gaelic was commonly believed to have been brought to Scotland, in the 4th–5th centuries CE, by settlers from Ireland who founded the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata on Scotland's west coast in present-day Argyll.
The 2011 UK Census showed a total of 57,375 Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
The words in the list include both Gaelic words and words based on Gaelic.
Aizle- an ember or spark like in tye beginning of a camp fire set out by family or friends.
Balloch - a mountain pass
Breac A’Mhuiltein - a dappled sky
Break-back - the dusky light of the harvest moon
Cairn- from the Gaelic ‘càrn’ meaning a certain type of rocky mountain
Camhanaich - the luminous catch of an early morning twilight
Capercaillie - from the Gaelic ‘capall-coille’ meaning "horse of the woods.”
Chuisil-I Chuisil-O - the gentle echo of a mournful whalesong
Cladach - the seashore
Crag - from the Gaelic ‘creag’ meaning cliff.
Dail - a pretty meadow possibly surrounded by craobhs (trees)?
Dealan-dè - beautiful butterflies
Duilleagan meirgeach - rustling leaves in the coille (forest)
E 'lang sang', long song, - the sound made by waves on the bar of a harbor
Faileas- a reflection left in an icy blue crystal clear lake
Fearthainn - rain
Flichterin - fluttering like a butterfly’s wings
Frith - a deer forest
Glashtroch: rain that never seems to end
Gloaming - when the sun sets for the bewitching hours of twilight or dusk
Grian- Sunshine at the cladach (seashore) where you can sit by the uisge (water).
Gulliewillie - a soft and soggy quagmire covered in grass
Huam - the moan of an owl in the warm days of summer
Ingle - from the obsolete Gaelic word ‘aingel’ meaning fire
Jumm - that deep, hollow sound which comes from the rocks on the seashore during a storm when the ocean is roaring
Lus nam Ban-sìth - a flower called Foxglove. Translates in Gaelic to “the plant of the fairy women”.
Machair - the fertile land behind dunes
Monadh- a moorland covered mountain
Na Fir-chlis - the Northern Lights it known as the aurora borealis. In Gaelic it is called as Na Fir-chlis.
O’erswak: the rushing sound of a wave breaking on the beach
Peuchling: a slight fall of snow on a cold winter day
Righ na coille - The darach or oak tree. The Gaelic words translates to “the king of the forest”.
Sclithers - loose stones lying in great quantities on the side of a rock or hill
Splorroch - the sound your feet make by walking in wet mud
Solasta - luminous and shining like from the sunshine of a beautiful day
Splang- a flash or sparkle - like the twinkling stars in the night sky
Srath- a wide valley
Tuil-Bherum - a torrent caused by a thunderstorm
Turadh- a break in the clouds between rain showers
Water-gaw - a bright and colorful rainbow
Whutterick-fuffing - a gathering of frisky weasels
Balloch - a mountain pass
Breac A’Mhuiltein - a dappled sky
Break-back - the dusky light of the harvest moon
Cairn- from the Gaelic ‘càrn’ meaning a certain type of rocky mountain
Camhanaich - the luminous catch of an early morning twilight
Capercaillie - from the Gaelic ‘capall-coille’ meaning "horse of the woods.”
Chuisil-I Chuisil-O - the gentle echo of a mournful whalesong
Cladach - the seashore
Crag - from the Gaelic ‘creag’ meaning cliff.
Dail - a pretty meadow possibly surrounded by craobhs (trees)?
Dealan-dè - beautiful butterflies
Duilleagan meirgeach - rustling leaves in the coille (forest)
E 'lang sang', long song, - the sound made by waves on the bar of a harbor
Faileas- a reflection left in an icy blue crystal clear lake
Fearthainn - rain
Flichterin - fluttering like a butterfly’s wings
Frith - a deer forest
Glashtroch: rain that never seems to end
Gloaming - when the sun sets for the bewitching hours of twilight or dusk
Grian- Sunshine at the cladach (seashore) where you can sit by the uisge (water).
Gulliewillie - a soft and soggy quagmire covered in grass
Huam - the moan of an owl in the warm days of summer
Ingle - from the obsolete Gaelic word ‘aingel’ meaning fire
Jumm - that deep, hollow sound which comes from the rocks on the seashore during a storm when the ocean is roaring
Lus nam Ban-sìth - a flower called Foxglove. Translates in Gaelic to “the plant of the fairy women”.
Machair - the fertile land behind dunes
Monadh- a moorland covered mountain
Na Fir-chlis - the Northern Lights it known as the aurora borealis. In Gaelic it is called as Na Fir-chlis.
O’erswak: the rushing sound of a wave breaking on the beach
Peuchling: a slight fall of snow on a cold winter day
Righ na coille - The darach or oak tree. The Gaelic words translates to “the king of the forest”.
Sclithers - loose stones lying in great quantities on the side of a rock or hill
Splorroch - the sound your feet make by walking in wet mud
Solasta - luminous and shining like from the sunshine of a beautiful day
Splang- a flash or sparkle - like the twinkling stars in the night sky
Srath- a wide valley
Tuil-Bherum - a torrent caused by a thunderstorm
Turadh- a break in the clouds between rain showers
Water-gaw - a bright and colorful rainbow
Whutterick-fuffing - a gathering of frisky weasels
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