èiginn

See also: eiginn

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish éicen f (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; stress; overpowering exuberance; need, necessitousness”).

Noun edit

èiginn f (genitive singular èiginne, plural èiginnean)

difficulty, hardship, trouble
necessity, emergency, pressure, desperation
violence, duress

Derived terms edit

air èiginn

References edit

Edward Dwelly (1911) “èiginn”, 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), “éicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language