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ficheadamh

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Scottish Gaelic

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Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
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2[a], [b]
    Cardinal: fichead
    Standalone: a fichead
    Ordinal: ficheadamh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 20mh

Etymology

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From Middle Irish fichetmad (compare Irish fichiú, Manx feedoo). By surface analysis, fichead +‎ -amh

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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an fhicheadamh or am ficheadamh

  1. twentieth

References

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  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ 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, page 244
  3. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN