aighearach

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish aerach (airy, pleasant; light-hearted, gay, frivolous).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

aighearach

  1. exulting, joyous, gay, happy, glad, mirthful, festive, light-hearted, lively
  2. odd
    òglach aighearachan odd fellow

Synonyms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aighearach n-aighearach h-aighearach t-aighearach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “aighearach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aerach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language