aodach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (compare modern Irish éadach).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɯːt̪əx/

Noun

aodach m (genitive singular aodaich, plural aodaichean)

clothes, dress
cuir ort d' aodach ― put on your clothes
cloth, material
aodach sa bheairt ― cloth in the loom
(nautical) sails (collectively)

Derived terms

aodach canaich (“cotton cloth, calico”)
aodach lìn (“linen cloth”)
aodach oidhche (“night clothes”)
aodach olla (“woollen cloth”)
aodach-leapa (“bed-clothes”)
cnag-aodaich (“clothes peg”)
fo-aodach (“underwear”)
sorchan-aodaich (“coatstand”)
uchd-aodach (“bra”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aodach	n-aodach	h-aodach	t-aodach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Edward Dwelly (1911) “aodach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

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