dranndan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish drantaigim, from Old Irish drantán (“snarl”), from drant (“jaw”), from Proto-Celtic *dran, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“drone, murmur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ɾãũn̪ˠt̪an/

Noun

dranndan m (genitive singular dranndain, plural dranndain)

1. growl, snarl

Derived terms

• dèan dranndan
• dranndanach

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
dranndan	dhranndan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dranndan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drantán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language