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

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
kellagh	chellagh	gellagh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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