Gaelic Word for Storm?

Kisatchie

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I found this, which seems to be what I need (thanks a million!):

"stoirm - nf. g.+e; pl.+ean or +eannan, a storm"

I am guessing that nf. means noun, feminine, and that pl. +ean (etc) means plural endings.

However, I am at a loss as to what "g.+e" means. Any one have any ideas.
 
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It means that you form the genitive case by adding an -e to the end of the root.

I don't know Scottish Gaelic, but the Irish stoirm takes an e in the genitive: /an stoirm/, "the storm", but /neart na stoirme/ "the force of the storm."
 

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Kisatchie said:
I found this, which seems to be what I need (thanks a million!):

"stoirm - nf. g.+e; pl.+ean or +eannan, a storm"

I am guessing that nf. means noun, feminine, and that pl. +ean (etc) means plural endings.

However, I am at a loss as to what "g.+e" means. Any one have any ideas.
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That's a loan word, borrowed from English. I'd use gailleann--it does imply wind and rain both though, not just rain.
 
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From my 894 page word doc of "Gaelic Words and Phrases from Wester Ross", "stoirm" is indeed a Gaelic word used for "storm".
 
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