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guidhe

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Irish

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Noun

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guidhe f (genitive singular guidhe, nominative plural guidhte)

  1. Superseded spelling of guí.

Declension

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Declension of guidhe (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative guidhe guidhte
vocative a ghuidhe a ghuidhte
genitive guidhe guidhte
dative guidhe guidhte
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghuidhe na guidhte
genitive na guidhe na nguidhte
dative leis an nguidhe
don ghuidhe
leis na guidhte

Mutation

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Mutated forms of guidhe
radical lenition eclipsis
guidhe ghuidhe nguidhe

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish guide, from Proto-Celtic *gʷodyā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰodʰ-yeh₂.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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guidhe m or f (genitive singular guidhe, plural guidheachan)

  1. verbal noun of guidh
  2. wish
    Tha iad a' cur guidhe thugad.They are sending you their wishes.
  3. entreaty

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