càirdeas

See also: cairdeas

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cairdes (“friendship, alliance, pact”).

Noun

càirdeas m (genitive singular càirdeis, plural càirdeasan)

  1. family relationship, kindred
  2. friendship, friendliness, rapport
  3. alliance

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of càirdeas
radical lenition
càirdeas chàirdeas

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “càirdeas”, 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), “cairdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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