Scottish Gaelic word

coille

forest

nounmasculine

coille means “forest” in Scottish Gaelic and is used as a noun.

Mutation forms

Mutation	Form
Base form	coille
Sèimheachadh	choille

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.

Luatharan coille - Tringa glareola -(Beurla: Wood Sandpiper)

Coileach coille - Scolopax rusticola -(Beurla: Eurasian Woodcock)

Calman-coille (Columba palumbus)

Capall-Coille - Tetrao urogallus -(Beurla: Eurasian Capercaillie)

Nature

abhainn

river, stream

bealach

defile, passage, pass or gorge of a mountain, glen

beinn

mountain, hill

beithe

birch

bileag

blade (of leaf), petal

blàth

blossom, bloom, flower

boglach

bog, fen, marsh, morass, quagmire, swamp

bruach

bank (of lake or river)

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