brùidealachd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From brùideil (“barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent”) +‎ -achd. Compare Irish brúidiúlacht.

Noun

brùidealachd f

  1. brutality, beastliness
  2. coarseness, savageness, barbarism, violence
  • brùid (“brute, beast, brutal person”)

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùidealachd”, 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), “brúitemlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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