ceithir

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ceithir     Ordinal : ceathramh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʲehɪrʲ/

Etymology

From Old Irish cethair, from Proto-Celtic *kʷetwares, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Numeral

ceithir

1. four

Derived terms

• às na ceithir ranna ruadha
• ceathramh
• ceathrad
• ceathrar

Mutation

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

References

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