grànda
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- grànnda (superseded)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin (“awfulness, an object of loathing or horror, terror, horror”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]grànda (comparative gràinde)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
grànda | ghrànda |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “grànnda”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN