aighearach
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish aerach (“airy, pleasant; light-hearted, gay, frivolous”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aighearach
- exulting, joyous, gay, happy, glad, mirthful, festive, light-hearted, lively
- odd
- òglach aighearach ― an odd fellow
Synonyms
[edit]- (lively): beò
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| aighearach | n-aighearach | h-aighearach | t-aighearach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “aighearach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aerach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language