Editing Sluagh (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Scottish Gaelic]] name {{lang|gd|Slúagh}} stems from the [[Old Irish]] {{lang|sga|slúag}} (≈ {{lang|sga|slóg}}), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'. Variant forms include {{lang|sga|slógh}} and {{lang|sga|sluag}}.<ref>[[Dictionary of the Irish Language|eDIL]] (2019), s.v. ''slóg'', ''slúag''. [http://www.dil.ie/37981 dil.ie/37981].</ref> It derives from the [[Proto-Celtic]] root *{{lang|mis|slougo-}} (cf. [[Gaulish language|Gaul.]] {{lang|xtg|[[Catuslugi|catu-slougi]]}} 'troops of combat', [[Middle Welsh]] {{lang|wlm|llu}} 'troop', [[Old Breton|Old Bret.]] -{{lang|obt|lu}} 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]] words that probably emerged from early linguistic contacts with Celtic speakers in Central-Eastern Europe: e.g. [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] {{lang|lt|slaugà}} ('service, servitude'), or [[Old Church Slavonic]] {{lang|cu|sluga}} ('servant').{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=276}}{{Sfn|Matasović|2009|p=346}}