diathad
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish díthat (“repast, collation”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diathad m (genitive singular diathaid, plural diathadan)
- (particularly Lewis, Ross-shire) lunch, dinner
- any meal
Derived terms
[edit]- diathad-beag (“breakfast”)
- diathad-mór (“dinner”)
- tìde-dhiathaid (“lunchtime”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| diathad | dhiathad |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “díthat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language