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Where does “baoghalta” come from?

baoghalta (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Scottish Gaelic -te, from Old Irish -de — Used to form adjectives from nouns, denoting...

baoghalta (Scottish Gaelic): stupid, wrong-headed

Definitions

  1. stupid, wrong-headed

Ancestry of “baoghalta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Scottish Gaelic-teUsed to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense...
2Old Irish-deUsed to form adjectives from nouns, denoting...
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