fo-shruth

See also: foshruth

Scottish Gaelic

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fo-shruth m (genitive singular fo-shrutha, plural fo-shruthan)

undercurrent
- 1856, Iain Caird, Diadhaidheachd am measg ghnothuichean an t-saoghail: searmoin. A liubhradh ann an tigh-aoraidh Chrathaidh, air 14^ug de Mhios Dheir^ch an Fhoghairidh, 1855, Air bealthaohh na Banrighinn agus Prionnsa Albert, leis an Urr^ch Iain Caird, M.I. Ministear Earoil. Air a cur a mach air iarrtas na Banrighinn, agus a nis Air a h-eadar-theangachadh o’n Bheurla., Dun-Eidean: Paton and Ritchie, page 20:
  Is amhuil dh-fhaodas fo-shruth bhi fo ghluasadan uachdair ur beatha-sa;
  It is as if an undercurrent can be under the surface movements of your life;

Mutation of *fo-shruth*
radical	lenition
fo-shruth	fho-shruth

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Boyd Robertson, Ian Macdonald (2010) Essential Gaelic Dictionary, Teach Yourself, published 2012, →ISBN: “undercurrent n fo-shruth m; (met) faireachdainn f”.