caidreabh

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).

Noun

caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)

  1. fellowship, partnership
  2. familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
  3. vicinity
  4. discourse
  5. the embrace, the bosom
  6. commerce
  7. assemblage
  8. inclination

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidreabh”, 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), “coitreb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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