iùnais

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

aonais

Etymology

From Old Irish ingnas (“absence”), from in- (“negative prefix”) + gnás (“companionship”).

Noun

iùnais f

want, deficiency

Derived terms

às iùnais (“without”)

Further reading

MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “iùnais”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ingnas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.