View source for Irish Gaelic/ Scottish Gaelic False Friends

A list of some cognate words with subtly different meanings in Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

{| border=1 cellpadding="5", rules="all" style="text-align:center"
!Gaelic form
!Gaelic meaning
!Irish form
!Irish meaning
|-
|brèagha
|beautiful
|brea
|nice
|-
|can
|say
|can
|sing
|-
|cù
|dog
|cú
|hound
|-
|e
|he or him
|é
|him (only)
|-
|i
|she or her
|í
|her (only)
|-
|iad
|they or them
|iad
|them (only)
|-
|seinn
|sing
|seinn
|play
|}

[[Category: Morphology]]
[[Category: Lexical Item]]