brùidealachd

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) +‎ -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.

Noun[edit]

brùidealachd f

  1. brutality, beastliness
  2. coarseness, savageness, barbarism, violence

Related terms[edit]

  • brùid (“brute, beast, brutal person”)

References[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùidealachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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