feòil-itheadair
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From feòil (“flesh, meat”) + ith (“eat”) + -adair (forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’).
Noun
feòil-itheadair m (genitive singular feòil-itheadair, plural feòil-itheadairean)
- carnivore
Antonyms
- lus-itheadair
Related terms
- feòil-itheach (“carnivorous”, adj)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “feòil-itheadair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN