fhathast
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish fo-dechtsa, from Old Irish in fecht so (“at this time, now”). Cognate with Irish feasta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- Despite fh usually being silent in Scottish Gaelic it is always pronounced /h/ in fhathast, as well as in fhèin and fhuair.
Adverb
[edit]fhathast
- still
- c. 1980, Murdo Macfarlane, Cànan nan Gàidheal:
- Murdo MacFarlane, c.1980 [2]:
- yet
Synonyms
[edit]- fòs (high register)
References
[edit]- ^ Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937), The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
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- Scottish Gaelic terms with quotations
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