cagair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cocraid (“to conspire”), a denominative from cocur (“(secret) conversation”).

Pronunciation

Verb

cagair (past chagair, future cagairidh, verbal noun cagar or cagarsaich or cagartaich, past participle cagairte)

  1. whisper

Derived terms

Noun

cagair m

  1. genitive singular of cagar

References

  1. ^ Jenny Ladefoged, Peter Ladefoged, Alice Turk, Kevin Hind (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
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