caidreabh
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).
Noun
[edit]caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)
- fellowship, partnership
- familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
- vicinity
- discourse
- the embrace, the bosom
- commerce
- assemblage
- inclination
Derived terms
[edit]- caidreamh tionnsgalach (“industrial relations”)
- caidreamhach (“social”, adjective)
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidreabh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coitreb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language