abaich
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish abaid, from Old Irish apaig (compare Irish aibí, Manx appee), from ad- bongaid (“to reap, pluck”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]abaich (comparative abaiche)
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “abaich”, 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), “apaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language