èiginn
See also: eiginn
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish éicen f (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; stress; overpowering exuberance; need, necessitousness”).
Noun
èiginn f (genitive singular èiginne, plural èiginnean)
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “èiginn”, 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), “éicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language