grànda
Scottish Gaelic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin (“awfulness, an object of loathing or horror, terror, horror”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editgrànda (comparative gràinde)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
grànda | ghrànda |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “grànnda”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN