mì-loinneil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From mì-loinn (“awkwardness, untidiness, want of order; irregularity; impropriety; inelegance, ungracefulness”) +‎ -eil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

mì-loinneil

1. awkward, disordered, untidy
2. irregular
3. disfigured
4. improper
5. inelegant

Derived terms

• mì-loinnealas m (“want of order; irregularity; impropriety”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mì-loinneil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN