suipeir

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• suipear

Etymology

From Middle Irish suipér (whence also Irish suipéar and Manx shibber), from Anglo-Norman soper; compare English supper and French souper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪uihpəɾʲ/
• (West Side Lewis) IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ihpað]
• (South Argyll, Sutherland) IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ipaɾ(ʲ)]

Noun

suipeir f (genitive singular suipeire, plural suipeirean)

1. supper

Mutation

Mutation of suipeir

radical	lenition
suipeir	shuipeir after "an", t-suipeir

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suipér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language