uachdar

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• uachtar (archaic) - 1567

Etymology

From Old Irish úachtar, óchtar (“top, surface, cream”), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsterom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewp-s- (“high”).

Noun

uachdar m (genitive singular uachdair, plural uachdaran)

1. surface
2. (food) cream
3. upland

Derived terms

• uachdar goirt (“sour cream”)
• càis-uachdrach (“cream cheese”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “uachdar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language