eadar

See also: éadar and eadar-

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish eter, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter (“between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈet̪əɾ/

Preposition

eadar (+ nominative)

1. between
2. (rare) both (triggers lenition)

   eadar bheag is mhòr ― both big and small

Inflection

Person	Prepositional pronoun	Prepositional pronoun (emphatic)
1st pl	eadarainn	eadarainne
2nd pl	eadaraibh	eadaraibhse
3rd pl	eatarra	eatarrasan

Derived terms

• eadar dà bharail (“of two minds”)
• eadar dà sgeul (“incidentally”)
• eadar- (“inter-”)

 

Derived terms

• eadar-

See also

• am measg
• an dà chuid

References

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