What traditional name for a badger comes originally from an Irish Gaelic word?
European badger (digger) has also been suggested as a source. A male badger is a boar, a female is a sow, and a young badger is a cub. A badger's home is called a sett. Badger colonies are often called clans. The far older name "brock" (Old English: "brocc"), (Scots: "brock") is a Celtic loanword (cf. Gaelic "broc" and Welsh "broch", from Proto-Celtic "*brokko") meaning "grey". The Proto-Germanic term was "*þahsu-" (cf. German "Dachs", Dutch "das", Norwegian "svin"-"toks"; Early Modern English: "dasse"), probably from the PIE root "*tek'-" "to construct," so the badger would have been named after its digging of setts
Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic and Irish is that the phenomenon of eclipsis in Irish is diachronic (i.e. the result of an historical word-final nasal that may or may not be present in modern Irish) but fully synchronic in Scottish Gaelic (i.e. it requires the actual presence of a word-final nasal except for a tiny set of frozen forms). Eclipsis is shown in the Irish orthography but not in Scottish Gaelic as it is conditioned by the actual environment. For example, this means that phrases like Standard Irish , standard Scottish Gaelic , Manx is pronounced as follows in different parts of the Gaelic