-aigeadh
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- -igeadh (after a slender consonant)
Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-aigeadh m
- noun ending, productively used to turn loanwords into Gaelic verbal nouns, as well as certain native words
- use + -aigeadh → iùsaigeadh (“using”)
- resign + -aigeadh → resignigeadh (“resigning”)
- iarann + -aigeadh → iarnaigeadh (“ironing; laundry that has been ironed”)