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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish impu. Cognates include Irish umpu and Manx moo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]umpa
- third-person plural of mu: about them
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of mu | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | umam | umamsa | ||||||
| 2nd | umad | umadsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | uime | uimesan | |||||||
| 3rd f | uimpe | uimpese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | umainn | umainne | ||||||
| 2nd | umaibh | umaibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | umpa | umpasan | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap