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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish gríanach, equivalent to grian (“sun”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grianach (genitive singular masculine grianaich, comparative grianaiche)
- sunny
- colored by the sun
- bright, shining
- warm
- airy
- abounding in sunny spots
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| grianach |
ghrianach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “grianach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gríanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language