eòrna

See also: eorna

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish eórna (compare Irish eorna, Manx oarn), from *yewornio-, from Proto-Celtic *yeu- (compare Breton yell (“spelt”)), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwos (“barley”) (compare Lithuanian javaĩ (“grain”), Persian جو (jaw), Sanskrit यव (yava)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔːrˠn̪ˠə/

Noun

eòrna m (genitive singular eòrna, plural eòrna)

1. barley

Derived terms

• sùgh an eòrna (“poetic term for whisk(e)y”)
• Tìr an Eòrna (“Tiree; Uist”)

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “eòrna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “eórna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language