urrainn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Irish aurrae (“person who is native within the bounds of a fine, túath, etc; leader, chief; surety, guarantor”).

Noun

urrainn f (indeclinable)

  1. power, ability

Adjective

urrainn

  1. able
  2. author
    sgeul gun urrainn - an anonymous story

Derived terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.