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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish nárach. By surface analysis, nàr + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nàrach (genitive singular masculine nàraich, comparative nàraiche)
- ashamed
- bashful, blate, coy, diffident
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “nàrach”, 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), “nárach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language