kellagh

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cailech, from Proto-Celtic *kalyākos, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“call”).

Noun

kellagh m (genitive singular kellee, plural kellee)

1. rooster
2. male (of birds)

Derived terms

• kellagh caggee (“gamecock”)

Mutation

Mutation of kellagh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
kellagh	chellagh	gellagh

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language