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airsan

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish foirsom. Cognates include Irish airsean and Manx ersyn.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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airsan

  1. third-person singular masculine emphatic of air: on him, on it

Inflection

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Personal inflection of air
Person: simple emphatic
singular first orm ormsa
second ort ortsa
third m air airsan
f oirre oirrese
plural first oirnn oirnne
second oirbh oirbhse
third orra orrasan

References

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  1. ^ 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