uachdar

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish úachtar, óchtar (“top, surface, cream”), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsterom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewp-s- (“high”).

Noun

uachdar m (genitive singular uachdair, plural uachdaran)

  1. surface
  2. (food) cream
  3. upland

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ John Carswell (1970 ) Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh R.L. Thomson (ed.) Edinburgh: Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, page 240.
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uachdar”, 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), “1 úachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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