ospadal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish ospitél (compare Irish ospidéal), from Anglo-Norman ospitel, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Noun

ospadal m (genitive singular ospadail, plural ospadalan)

1. hospital

   Synonyms: taigh-eiridinn, taigh-leighis, taigh-tinneis

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ospadal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ospitél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language