mì-eireachdail

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From mì- (negative prefix) +‎ eireachdail (“handsome, beauteous, comely, seemly, graceful, fair; decent, becoming, proper”).

Adjective

mì-eireachdail

  1. ungenteel, unseemly

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mì-eireachdailmhì-eireachdail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mì-eireachdail”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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