piseach
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish piseóc (“charm, witchcraft”), probably borrowed from Latin pyxis (“medicine box”).[1]
Noun
piseach m (genitive singular pisich)
- success, prosperity
- improvement, progress
- increase, augmentation
References
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “piseach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page piseach