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

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
càirdeaschàirdeas
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]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cairdes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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