suipeir
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish suipér (whence also Irish suipéar and Manx shibber), from Anglo-Norman soper; compare English supper and French souper.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈs̪uihpəɾʲ/
- (West Side Lewis) IPA(key): [ˈs̪ihpað]
- (South Argyll, Sutherland) IPA(key): [ˈs̪ipaɾ(ʲ)]
Noun
[edit]suipeir f (genitive singular suipeire, plural suipeirean)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
suipeir | shuipeir after "an", t-suipeir |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suipér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language