forest in Scottish Gaelic

coille

forest

nounmasculine

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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

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)

Forms & mutations Treigladau / Claochluithe

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