brùidealachd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) +‎ -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.

Noun

brùidealachd f

1. brutality, beastliness
2. coarseness, savageness, barbarism, violence

Related terms

• brùid (“brute, beast, brutal person”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùidealachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language