ainleag-mhonaidh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

ainleag (“swallow”) + mhonaidh (“mountain”).

Noun

Wikispecies

ainleag-mhonaidh f (genitive singular ainleige-monaidh, plural ainleagan-monaidh)[1][2]

  1. alpine swift (Apus melba)[1][3][4] synonym (Tachymarptis melba)[5][6]

References
  1. ainleag-mhonaidh at Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN; accessed on 2 Feb 2015
  2. Bauer, Mìchael. ainleag-mhonaidh in "Am Faclair Beag"}}. Accessed 4 Feb. 2015.
  3. Apus melba Alpine Swift at Encyclopedia of Life; accessed on 2 Feb 2015
  4. Apus melba (Linnaeus, 1758) on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.; accessed on 2 Feb 2015
  5. Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba) (Linnaeus, 1758) at Avibase; accessed on 2 Feb 2015
  6. Tachymarptis melba at National Center for Biotechnology Information; accessed on 2 Feb 2015
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