nighean
Scottish GaelicEdit
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PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”) (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)).
NounEdit
nighean f (genitive nighinn or nighinne or nighne, plural nigheanan or nigheannan or nighnean)
- daughter, female offspring
- girl, maiden
- An cluinn thu mi, mo nighean dhonn? ― Will you listen to me, my brown-haired girl?