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speckled, spotted, piebald in Scottish Gaelic

breac

speckled, spotted, piebald

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Scottish Gaelic · English

Breac à linne, slat à coille ‘s fiadh à fìreach - mèirle às nach do ghabh Gàidheal a-riamh nàire.

A trout from the river pool, a staff from the wood, and a deer from the moor - "thefts" of which no Gael was ever ashamed.C1

Breac nam Bò

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Sioltaich Breac - Mergellus albellus -(Beurla: Smew)

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Gearra breac (casgan-long) - Cepphus grylle -(Beurla: Black Guillemot)

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Traon breac - Porzana porzana -(Beurla: Spotted Crake)

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Forms & mutations Treigladau / Claochluithe

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breac
Sèimheachadh
bhreac

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