Example sentences for: gaelic

How can you use “gaelic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Irish Gaelic has an extensive written literature based on old monastic tradition (and the newer nationalism), but Scots Gaelic by comparison is in poor shape.

  • Gaelic was the mother tongue in Wigtownshire for twelve centuries, but little trace of it remains in the spoken language today.

  • K. Johnston) I have compiled the following Gaelic names for heather with their literal translations.

  • Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.

  • GAELIC ENGLISH fraoch `tuted heather' (a)bhadain fraoch-an- `heath in which wind makes a buzzing sound' or `which crackles when being burnt' fraoch- `cracklng' or `screeching heather' sgriachain fraoch- `heather with a loud sound when burstin' spreadanach


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