brùid

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brúit (“brute, beast”), from Latin brūtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b̥ruːdʲ/

Noun

brùid m (genitive singular brùid, plural brùidean)

1. brute, beast
2. brutal person

Related terms

• brùideil (“barbarous, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent, cruel”, adjective)
• brùidealachd f (“barbarism, brutality, violence”)

Mutation

Mutation of brùid

radical	lenition
brùid	bhrùid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùid”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brúit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language