Scottish Gaelic

Suffix

-adair

1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of ‘person or thing connected or involved with, belonging to, having’

   seinn ("sing") → seinne ("singing") + -adair → seinneadair ("singer")

   cluich ("play", "performance") → cluiche ("playing", "performing") + -adair → cluicheadair ("player", "actor")

   aoir ("lampoon", "satire") → aoire ("lampooning") + -adair → aoireadair ("satirist")

2. Forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’

   leugh ("read") + -adair → leughadair ("reader")

   sgrìobh ("write") + -adair → sgrìobhadair ("writer")

Derived terms

See also

• -iche
• -air
• -ear
• -aire