chunnaic
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- chonnaic
- chunna (North Argyll, Skye, Perthshire)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish ad·condairc, perfect of ad·cí, from the Proto-Celtic stem *derk-, from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]chunnaic
- past indicative independent of faic
- Chunnaic sinn taigh. ― We saw a house.
- Chunnaic i tobhta. ― She saw a ruin.
Usage notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *derḱ-
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic non-lemma forms
- Scottish Gaelic verb forms
- Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples