bàta

See also: bata, batá, bàtá, bâta, batā, bâtă, bată, and bata-

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish bát (compare Irish bád, Manx baatey), borrowed from Old English bāt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̊aːʰt̪ə], /paːʰt̪ə/

Noun

bàta m (genitive singular bàta, plural bàtaichean)

1. boat
2. pinnace
3. barge

Usage notes

• Although the noun is masculine, the feminine pronoun i is used.

Derived terms

• bàt-'aigeil (“submarine”)
• bàta-ràmh (“rowing boat”)
• bàta-smùide (“steamboat”)
• bàta-tumaidh (“submarine”)
• uinneag bàta (“porthole”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
bàta	bhàta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàta”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bát”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language