Crìosdail
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish Crístamail (“Christian”, adjective) (compare Irish Críostúil), from Críst. By surface analysis, Crìosd (“Christ”) + -ail (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]Crìosdail
Related terms
[edit]- Crìosdaidh (“Christian”)
- Crìosdaidheachd f (“Christianity”)
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Crístamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language