aodach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish étach (compare modern Irish éadach).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɯːt̪əx/

Noun

aodach m (genitive singular aodaich, plural aodaichean)

1. clothes, dress

   cuir ort d' aodach ― put on your clothes

2. cloth, material

   aodach sa bheairt ― cloth in the loom

3. (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

Mutation of aodach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aodach	n-aodach	h-aodach	t-aodach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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