seachdain

Scottish Gaelic

From Old Irish sechtmain, from Latin septimāna, from septimus (“seventh”).

(Lewis, Trotternish, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛxkɔɲ/^[1], [ˈʃæxkɔɲ]^[2]^[3]
(Southern Hebridean, much of Skye, Coigach) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛxkɛɲ/^[2], [ˈʃæxkɛɲ]^[4]
(Lochalsh) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛxkɔn/^[5]
(South Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛxkaiɲ/^[6]

seachdain f (genitive seachdaine, plural seachdainean)

^ 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, page 31
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 31
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 87
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937), The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 116
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 132
^ Jones, George (2009), “The Gaelic of South Argyll: Jura and Islay Dialects”, in J. Derrick McClure, John M. Kirk, Margaret C. Storrie, editors, A Land That Lies Westward: Language and Culture in Islay and Argyll, Edinburgh: J. Donald, →ISBN, page 9