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Ro–leasachain àicheil

Negative prefixes

If we look back at the introduction, we can see words with ro–leasachain àicheil (negative prefixes).

Gaelic, like English, uses prefixes to change the meaning of words, such as making a word àicheil (negative).

In the opening passage, we saw examples of different prefixes: ana–, eu–, mì–, neo–and eas– which usually? cause the following word to lenite.

These generally have the same meaning as English negative prefixes: un–, im–, in–, il–, ir–, and dis–.

aonta

agreement

easaonta

disagreement

buannachd

advantage

eas–bhuannachd

disadvantage

ceartas

justice

ana–cheartas

injustice

cinnteach

certain

mì–chinnteach

uncertain

dòchasach

optimistic, hopeful

eu–dòchasach

pessimistic, despondent

ionannachd

equality, equity

neo–ionnanachd

inequity, inequality

laghail

legal

mì–laghail

illegal, unlawful

It’s well worth taking a look in the LearnGaelic Co–fhaclair (Thesaurus) any time you are looking for the antanaim (antonym) of a word.