ceithir

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic numbers ^(edit)

	40[a], [b]
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: ceithir     Standalone: a ceithir     Ordinal: ceathramh     Ordinal abbreviation: 4mh     Personal: ceathrar     Multiplier: ceithir-fillte     Fractional: cairteal

Etymology

From Old Irish cethair, from Proto-Celtic *kʷetwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲʰehɪɾʲ/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈkʲʰehəð/

Numeral

ceithir

1. four

Derived terms

• às na ceithir ranna ruadha
• ceathramh
• ceathrad
• ceathrar

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
ceithir	cheithir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ceithir”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cethair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language