grànda

See also: granda, Granda, and gránda

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin (“awfulness, an object of loathing or horror, terror, horror”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾãːn̪ˠtə/

Adjective

grànda (comparative gràinde)

  1. ugly
  2. nasty, horrible
    Tha an t-sìde grànda an-diugh. ― The weather is horrible today.

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gràndaghrànda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “grànnda”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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