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tunnag

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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Compare Irish tonnóg and Manx thunnag.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tunnag f (genitive singular tunnaige, plural tunnagan)

  1. duck

Declension

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Declension of tunnag (class IIa feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative tunnag tunnagan
genitive tunnaige, tunnaig thunnag
dative tunnaig tunnagan; tunnagaibh
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) tunnag (na) tunnagan
genitive (na) tunnaige, tunnaig (nan) tunnag
dative (an) tunnaig (na) tunnagan; tunnagaibh
vocative thunnag thunnaga

obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Mutation

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Mutation of tunnag
radical lenition
tunnag thunnag

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

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