dranndan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish drantán (“snarl”), from drant (“jaw”), from Proto-Celtic *dran-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“drone, murmur”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪̊ɾãũn̪ˠt̪an/[2][3]
  • (Skye) IPA(key): /ˈd̪̊ɾãũn̪ˠan/[4] (as if spelled drannan)

Noun

dranndan m (genitive singular dranndain, plural dranndain)

  1. growl, snarl

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of dranndan
radical lenition
dranndan dhranndan

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “drannd”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[2], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  4. ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99‎[3], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “dranndan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drantán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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