caidreabh
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
- caidreadh
- caidreamh
Etymology
From Old Irish coitreb (“fellowship, company, association”).
Noun
caidreabh m (genitive singular caidreibh, no plural)
- fellowship, partnership
- familiarity, friendship, acquaintance, intercourse
- vicinity
- discourse
- the embrace, the bosom
- commerce
- assemblage
- inclination
Derived terms
- caidreamh tionnsgalach (“industrial relations”)
- caidreamhach (“social”, adjective)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “caidreabh”, 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), “coitreb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language