brùidealachd
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) + -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.
Noun edit
brùidealachd f
Related terms edit
- brùid (“brute, beast, brutal person”)
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùidealachd”, 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), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language