gràin

See also: grain, gráin, and gräin

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gráin,[1] from Proto-Celtic *gragnis (“disgust”). Compare Irish gráin.

Noun

gràin f (genitive singular gràine)

  1. hate, hatred, disgust

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of gràin
radical lenition
gràin ghràin

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gráin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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