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tòn

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Adele

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Adele cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tòn
    Ordinal : tònfɛ

Numeral

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tòn

  1. five

Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish tón (anus),[1] from Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-.[2] Cognate with English thigh. Compare Irish tóin and Manx thoin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tòn f (genitive singular tòine, plural tònan)

  1. anus, rectum, backside, arse

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of tòn
radical lenition
tòn thòn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 393