umainn

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Irish

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Pronoun

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umainn (emphatic umainne)

  1. first-person plural of um

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish immunn. Cognates include Irish umainn and Manx mooin.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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umainn

  1. first-person plural of mu: about us

Inflection

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Personal inflection of mu
Number Person Simple Emphatic
Singular 1st umam umamsa
2nd umad umadsa
3rd m uime uimesan
3rd f uimpe uimpese
Plural 1st umainn umainne
2nd umaibh umaibhse
3rd umpa umpasan

References

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  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh