càirdeas

See also: cairdeas

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Noun

càirdeas m (genitive singular càirdeis, plural càirdeasan)

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

Derived terms

• dlùth-chairdeas

Related terms

• caraid
• càirdeach
• càirdeil

Mutation

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

• 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