oirnn
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish fornn. Cognates include Irish orainn and Manx orrin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ɔːrˠn/[1] (as if spelled oirrn)
- (North Uist) IPA(key): /ˈɛɾʲɛɲ/[2]
- (Barra) IPA(key): [ˈɤɾʲɪɲ~ˈɤʒɪɲ][3]
Pronoun
[edit]oirnn
- first-person plural of air: on us
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of oirnn | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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