raineach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• fraineach (Barra, North Skye, Lochalsh, Mackay Country, East Inverness-shire, Islay)

Etymology

From Old Irish raithnech (“fern, brake-fern”) (compare Irish raithneach, Manx rhennagh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrˠaɲəx/

Noun

raineach f (genitive singular rainich, plural rainichean)

1. fern, bracken
2. (slang) weed, hash, cannabis

Derived terms

• raineach chruaidh (“hard fern”)
• raineach Moire (“lady fern”)
• raineach rìoghail (“royal fern”)

References

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