15245.
Nic Mhaoláin
(Máire): Varia: I.
Chomh gorm le smál
revisited.
In
Éigse 39
(2016), pp. 243–245.
Argues Mod. Ir.
smál
‘blue’ (used by Donegal writer Séamus Ó Grianna) < Engl.
smalt
.
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Classifications:
D 1.2 Lexicology
D 1.2.4 Lexical copying (= Lexical borrowing) between Irish (incl. Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and English (incl. Scots)
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Words/Proper Names:
smál
smól