See also: grain, gráin, and gräin

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gráin,[1] from Proto-Celtic *grā̆gnis (disgust). Compare Irish gráin.

Noun

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gràin f (genitive singular gràine)

  1. hate, hatred, disgust

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gràin ghràin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gráin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language