grànda

See also: granda, Granda, and gránda

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• grànnda (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin (“awfulness, an object of loathing or horror, terror, horror”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾãːn̪ˠtə/

Adjective

grànda (comparative gràinde)

1. ugly
2. nasty, horrible

   Tha an t-sìde grànda an-diugh. ― The weather is horrible today.

Mutation

Mutation of grànda

radical	lenition
grànda	ghrànda

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “grànnda”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN