uachdar
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish úachtar (“top, surface, cream”),[2] from Proto-Celtic *ouxteros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewp-s- (“high”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]uachdar m (genitive singular uachdair, plural uachdaran)
Derived terms
[edit]- uachdar goirt (“sour cream”)
- càis-uachdrach (“cream cheese”)
References
[edit]- ^ John Carswell (1970 [1567]) Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh R.L. Thomson (ed.) Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, page 240.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
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- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
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- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- gd:Dairy products