oirbh
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish fuirib. Cognates include Irish oraibh and Manx erriu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (stressed) /ˈɔɾʲəv/, (unstressed) /əɾʲəv/
- (Lewis) IPA(key): [ˈɤðɤv]
- (Barra) IPA(key): [ˈɤɾʲev][1]
- (Skye, Sutherland) IPA(key): /ˈɔɾɪ/, /ˈɔɾu/
Pronoun
[edit]oirbh
- second-person plural of air: on you
Inflection
[edit]Personal inflection of air | |||||||||
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Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | orm | ormsa | ||||||
2nd | ort | ortsa | |||||||
3rd m | air | airsan | |||||||
3rd f | oirre | oirrese | |||||||
Plural | 1st | oirnn | oirnne | ||||||
2nd | oirbh | oirbhse | |||||||
3rd | orra | orrasan |
References
[edit]- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap