gruaidh
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]gruaidh f (genitive singular gruaidhe, nominative plural gruadha)
- Superseded spelling of grua (“cheek”).
Declension
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]gruaidh f (genitive singular gruaidhe, plural gruaidhean)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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
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- Irish second-declension nouns
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