grànda
Scottish Gaelic edit
Alternative forms edit
- grànnda (superseded)
Etymology edit
From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin (“awfulness, an object of loathing or horror, terror, horror”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
grànda (comparative gràinde)
Mutation edit
Scottish 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