tàcharan
Scottish Gaelic
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editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish tacharán (“orphan, waif”).
Noun
edittàcharan m (genitive singular tàcharain, plural tàcharanan)
- changeling
- (dated) orphan
- (dated) weak, helpless, cowardly, feeble person
- (obsolete) yelling of ghosts
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “tàcharan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tacharán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language