brùidealachd
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) + -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.
Noun
editbrùidealachd 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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language