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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish abaid, from Old Irish apaig (compare Irish aibí, Manx appee), from ad- + bongaid (“to reap, pluck”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
abaich (comparative abaiche)
- mature, ripe
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “abaich”, 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), “apaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language