càirdeas

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See also: cairdeas

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cairdes (friendship, alliance, pact).

Noun

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càirdeas m (genitive singular càirdeis, plural càirdeasan)

  1. family relationship, kindred
  2. friendship, friendliness, rapport
  3. alliance

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
càirdeas chàirdeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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