gu dè
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”),[1][2] synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- The unemphatic form is dè.
- In the Arran Gaelic dialect, which recently became extinct, this was the main form, rather than dè.
Interjection
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150