tàillear

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare modern Irish táilliúir, Manx thalhear), borrowed from Anglo-Norman taillour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.

Noun

tàillear m (genitive singular tàilleir, plural tàillearan)

1. tailor

Mutation

Mutation of tàillear

radical	lenition
tàillear	thàillear

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “táilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language