caidreabh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• caidreadh
• caidreamh

Etymology

From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).

Noun

caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)

1. fellowship, partnership
2. familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
3. vicinity
4. discourse
5. the embrace, the bosom
6. commerce
7. assemblage
8. inclination

Derived terms

• caidreamh tionnsgalach (“industrial relations”)
• caidreamhach (“social”, adjective)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidreabh”, 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), “coitreb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language