aitreabh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish atrab, from Proto-Celtic *attrebā (“settlement”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with English thorp and Albanian trevë.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈahtʰʲɾʲəv/

Noun

aitreabh m (genitive singular aitreibh, plural aitreabhan)

1. building, complex, dwelling

Derived terms

• aitreabh-leighis (“sick bay, medical building”)
• aitreabhach (“habitable, pertaining to an abode, locative (in linguistics)”)
• aitreabhachd (“habitableness”)
• aitreabhach m (“inhabitant, lodger, farmer”)
• tuiseal aitreabhach (“locative case”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aitreabh	n-aitreabh	h-aitreabh	t-aitreabh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.