tàcharan
Scottish Gaelic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish tacharán (“orphan, waif”).
Noun edit
tàcharan m (genitive singular tàcharain, plural tàcharanan)
- changeling
- (dated) orphan
- (dated) weak, helpless, cowardly, feeble person
- (obsolete) yelling of ghosts
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “tàcharan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tacharán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language