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oirre

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish furi. Cognates include Irish uirthi and Manx urree.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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oirre

  1. third-person singular feminine of air: on her, on it

Inflection

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Personal inflection of air
Person: simple emphatic
singular first orm ormsa
second ort ortsa
third m air airsan
f oirre oirrese
plural first oirnn oirnne
second oirbh oirbhse
third orra orrasan

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
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  4. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  5. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
  6. ^ Seumas Grannd (2000) The Gaelic of Islay: A Comparative Study[2], Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, →ISBN