ceithir

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ceithir
    Ordinal : ceathramh

Etymology

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

Numeral

ceithir

  1. four

Derived terms

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

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ceithir”, 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), “cethair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language