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See also: léinn
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish leinn. Cognates include Irish linn and Manx lhien.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /lɤ̃ĩɲ/[1]
- (Harris) IPA(key): /leiɲ/
- (Uist) IPA(key): /liːɲ/[2] (as if spelled linn)
- (Barra) IPA(key): [liˑɲ][3] (as if spelled linn)
- (Argyll) IPA(key): /leɲː/
- Hyphenation: leinn
Pronoun
[edit]leinn
- first-person plural of le: with us; by us
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of le | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | leam | leamsa | ||||||
| 2nd | leat | leatsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | leis | leis-san | |||||||
| 3rd f | leatha | leathase | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | leinn | leinne | ||||||
| 2nd | leibh | leibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | leotha | leothasan | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
[edit]- Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382