Leòdhas
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Old Norse ljóða hús (literally “song house”), though that may be a folk etymology.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈʎɔu.əs̪/, [ˈʎɵʊ.əs̪][1]
- (North Uist) IPA(key): /ˈʎeo.əs̪/[2]
- (South Uist, Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈʎoː.əs̪/[3][4]
Proper noun
[edit]Leòdhas m (genitive Leòdhais)
- Lewis (an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar council area, Scotland)
- Synonyms: Eilean Leòdhais, Eilean an Fhraoich
Related terms
[edit]- Leòdhasach (“person from Lewis; pertaining to Lewis”)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: Lewis
References
[edit]- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN