oirbh
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish fuirib. Cognates include Irish oraibh and Manx erriu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈɤˈðɤv/[1]
- (North Uist) IPA(key): /ˈɛɾʲɛv/[2]
- (Barra) IPA(key): [ˈɤɾʲev][3]
- (Skye, Sutherland) IPA(key): /ˈɔɾɪ/, /ˈɔɾu/
Pronoun
[edit]oirbh
- second-person plural of air: on you
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of air | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | orm | ormsa | ||||||
| 2nd | ort | ortsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | air | airsan | |||||||
| 3rd f | oirre | oirrese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | oirnn | oirnne | ||||||
| 2nd | oirbh | oirbhse | |||||||
| 3rd | orra | orrasan | |||||||
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