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roimhpe

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish rempe, roimpe, replacing earlier remi, romi, from Old Irish remi.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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roimhpe (emphatic roimhpese)

  1. third-person singular feminine of ro: before her, before it

Inflection

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Personal inflection of roimhpe
Person: simple emphatic
singular first romham romhamsa
second romhad romhadsa
third m roimhe roimhesan
f roimhpe roimhpese
plural first romhainn romhainne
second romhaibh romhaibhse
third romhpa romhpasan

References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  4. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN