gearan

See also: gearán

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gerán (“complaint, wailing, accusation”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡ̊ʲɛɾan/
  • (Skye) IPA(key): /ˈɡ̊ʲɛɾɛn/[1]

Noun

gearan m (genitive singular gearain, plural gearanan)

  1. verbal noun of gearain
  2. complaint, grumble
  3. (medicine) complaint

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of gearan
radical lenition
gearan ghearan

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

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 15
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