crann-tara

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From crann (“piece, wood, pole”) + tara, an archaic word supposedly meaning "shame, reproach," of uncertain origin, but possibly borrowed from Old Norse tara (“war, fight”), [1] itself possibly borrowed from some other source.[2]

Noun

crann-tara m (genitive singular crainn-thara, plural crainn-thara)

  1. fiery cross

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders. (1909). United Kingdom: A. Sinclair, p. 109
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “tara”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
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