èiginn

See also: eiginn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish éicen f (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; stress; overpowering exuberance; need, necessitousness”).

Noun

èiginn f (genitive singular èiginne, plural èiginnean)

1. difficulty, hardship, trouble
2. necessity, emergency, pressure, desperation
3. violence, duress

Derived terms

• air èiginn

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “èiginn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “éicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language