brùidealachd
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) + -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.
Related terms
- brùid (“brute, beast, brutal person”)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “brùidealachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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