List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin
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This is a list of English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic:
- bard
- From bàrd, poet or reciter.
- banshee
- From bean-sìth, a wailing (female) spirit.
- bog
- From bog, meaning soft or wet, a bog, swamp or marsh.
- brat
- A disagreeable or spoiled child.
- brisk
- clan
- From clann, children or family.
- claymore
- From claidheamh mòr, great sword
- corrie
- From coire, kettle
- cross
- gab, gob
- From gob, mouth.
- galore
- From gu leòr, enough, plenty.
- glen
- From gleann, a valley.
- keen (wail)
- leprechaun
- pet
- slew
- From sluagh, an army, people.
- slob
- slogan
- smashing
- From 's math sin, that is good
- smidgen
- smithereens
- whisky
- From uisge-beatha, water of life.
All of the original Gaelic forms of these words are also found in Irish and likely have been simultaneously borrowed from both languages.