iùnais

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• aonais

Etymology

From Old Irish ingnas (“absence”), from in- (“negative prefix”) + gnás (“companionship”).

Noun

iùnais f

1. want, deficiency

Derived terms

• às iùnais (“without”)

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “iùnais”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language