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gruaidh

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Irish

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Noun

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gruaidh f (genitive singular gruaidhe, nominative plural gruadha)

  1. Superseded spelling of grua (cheek).

Declension

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Declension of gruaidh (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gruaidh gruadha
vocative a ghruaidh a ghruadha
genitive gruaidhe gruadh
dative gruaidh gruadha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ghruaidh na gruadha
genitive na gruaidhe na ngruadh
dative leis an ngruaidh
don ghruaidh
leis na gruadha

Mutation

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Mutated forms of gruaidh
radical lenition eclipsis
gruaidh ghruaidh ngruaidh

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish grúad n (cheek; brow, edge of a ridge or furrow) (compare modern Irish grua), from Proto-Celtic *groudos (chin, cheek) (compare Welsh grudd (cheek; slope)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gruaidh f (genitive singular gruaidhe, plural gruaidhean)

  1. cheek
  2. countenance
  3. brow
  4. edge of a furrow
  5. profile
  6. temple of the head
  7. liver

Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gruaidh”, 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), “gruad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language