iochd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish icht (“kindness, clemency, trust, confidence”).

Noun

iochd m

1. mercy, pity, compassion, grace

Derived terms

• iochdmhor (“clement, compassionate, humane, merciful, kind”, adjective)

References

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