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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish áth (compare Manx aah, Irish áth), from Proto-Celtic *yātus (“ford”).
Noun
àth m (genitive singular àth, plural àthan)
- (geography) ford
Etymology 2
From Old Irish áith f (“drying-kiln (for grain)”), from Proto-Celtic *ātis, from the same root as *h₂eh₁ter- (“fire”) (compare Latin āter, Serbo-Croatian vȁtra).
Noun
àth f (genitive singular àtha, plural àthan or àthannan)
- kiln
Declension
Declension of àth (type IVb feminine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Declension of àth (type IVb feminine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “àth”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language