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uileag

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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uileag

  1. Connacht form of uile (all, every)

Adjective

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uileag

  1. Connacht form of uile (all, every)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of uileag
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uileag n-uileag huileag not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 97
  2. ^ Ó Siadhail, Mícheál (1988) Learning Irish (in Irish), New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 38

Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Apparently a clipping of uile gu lèir, as stated of the Irish equivalent uileag, uilig in a letter from Holger Pedersen to Franz Nikolaus Finck.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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uileag

  1. Uist and Barra form of uile (all)

Adjective

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uileag

  1. Uist and Barra form of uile (all)

Mutation

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Mutation of uileag
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uileag n-uileag h-uileag t-uileag

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. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 270
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap