meangan

== Scottish Gaelic == === Alternative forms === meanglan, meaghan === Etymology === Perhaps related to Old Irish maethán, máotháin (“tender shoot, twig”). === Pronunciation === (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ̃ɣan/ (Barra) IPA(key): /ˈmɛŋɡan/ See also meanglan === Noun === meangan m (genitive singular meangain, plural meanganan or meangain) small branch, twig, bough (sheep) right angle earmark === References === === Further reading === MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “meangan, meanglan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN