THE CORONAVIRUS PHRASE BOOK

LOCKDOWN glasadh-sluaigh. Locking-of-crowd(s).

FURLOUGH air fòrladh. An existing term. Furlough never went out of fashion as a word in Gaelic and continued to mean on leave.

QUARANTINE cuarantain. An existing word which borrows from the English quarantine. PANDEMIC galar mór-sgaoilte. A massively spread illness.

SOCIAL DISTANCING astarachadh sòisealta. Sòisealta is a 19th-century ‘loan’ from English meaning social. Astarachadh was coined during the pandemic and based on a star, relating to speed/distance.

ALCOHOL-BASED HAND SANITISER stuth-slàinteachaidh làimhe stèidhichte air alcol. Hand hygienising material based on alcohol.