èiginn

See also: eiginn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish éicen f (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; stress; overpowering exuberance; need, necessitousness”).

Noun

èiginn f (genitive singular èiginne, plural èiginnean)

  1. difficulty, hardship, trouble
  2. necessity, emergency, pressure, desperation
  3. violence, duress

Derived terms

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “éicen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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