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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish éicen f (“necessity”).
Noun
èiginn f (genitive singular èiginne, plural èiginnean)
- difficulty, hardship, trouble
- necessity, emergency, pressure, desperation
- violence, duress
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “èiginn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éicen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language