mùchadh

See also: múchadh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish múchad. By surface analysis, mùch +‎ adh (compare Irish múchadh, Manx mooghey).

Noun

mùchadh m (genitive singular mùchaidh, plural mùchaidhean)

1. verbal noun of mùch
2. suffocation
3. repression

Synonyms

• (repression): ceannsachadh

Further reading

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