Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• ùirsgeul
• uisgeul
• ùr-sgeul

Noun

uirsgeul m ‎(genitive singular uirsgeil, plural uirsgeulan)

1. legend, myth; tale, romance; fable, folktale; novel
2. news, intelligence
3. recent account
4. tale of recent times, modern tale
5. fiction (type of literature)
6. blarney

Synonyms

• (fiction): ficsean

Derived terms

• uirsgeulach ‎(“fictional; legendary”)
• uirsgeulachd f ‎(“fiction”)
• ùirsgeulaiche m ‎(“novelist”)

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9