Irish

Noun

fraoch m, f ‎(genitive singular fraoigh or fraoighe)

1. heather
2. heath, moor

Declension

• Variant genitive singular: fraoich

Synonyms

• (heather): fraoch mór
• (heath): móinteach

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish fráech m ‎(“rage, fury , fierceness”).

Noun

fraoch m ‎(genitive singular fraoich)

1. fierceness, fury

Declension

Derived terms

• fraochnimh f ‎(“venomous anger”)
• fraochta ‎(“fierce, furious, enraged”)

Related terms

• fraochaíl f ‎(“furiousness; fierce valour”)
• fraochtacht f ‎(“rage, fury”)

Mutation

References

• "fraoch" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fráech, from Old Irish froích, fróech, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos, from a non-Indo-Euroean source.

Noun

fraoch m ‎(genitive singular fraoich, no plural)

1. heath, heather, ling
2. bristles
3. anger
4. girning expression of countenance

Derived terms

• dearc-fhraoich f ‎(“bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, cowberry”)
• deargan-fraoich m ‎(“goldfinch; bullfinch”)

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 0 901771 92 9
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
• “1 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 fráech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.