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Gallda

Gallda

See also: gallda

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

Gallda

Alternative form of Gallta.

gallda

gallda

See also: Gallda

Irish

Adjective

gallda

Derived terms

Terms derived from gallda

aiteann gallda m ‎(“tall furze”)
bláthnaid ghallda f ‎(“least weasel”)
cnó gallda m ‎(“walnut”)

galldachas m, galldacht f ‎(“foreign ways; Anglicization”)
galldaigh ‎(“anglicize”, transitive verb)
galldú m ‎(“Anglicization”)

míle gallda m ‎(“statute mile”)
raithneach ghallda f ‎(“royal fern”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gallda	ghallda	ngallda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"gallda" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“gallda” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Gall +‎ -da.

Adjective

gallda

foreign (especially Norse or English)
having foreign connections or ways

Derived terms

galldach ‎(“native of England”, adj)
galldacht f ‎(“foreignness, hence English connection, fashion, ways; (collective) the Englishry, the English settlers; district occupied by the English”)

Descendants

Irish: gallda
Scottish Gaelic: Gallta

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gallda	gallda pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngallda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“gallda” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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