inneal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish indell. Compare Irish inneall.

Noun

inneal m (genitive singular inneil, plural inneil or innealan)

1. engine, machine
2. apparatus, gadget, tool
3. implement, instrument
4. carriage

Derived terms

• clàr-inneal (“disc drive”)
• inneal-airgid (“cash machine”)
• inneal-ciùil (“musical instrument”)
• inneal-GPS (“GPS receiver”)
• inneal-tomhais (“meter”)
• innleachd
• innleadair (“engineer; mechanic”)

 

Mutation

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