èist

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See also: eist and éist

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish éistid, éitsid (listens, hearkens, attends).

Pronunciation

Verb

èist (past dh'èist, future èistidh, verbal noun èisteachd, past participle èiste)

  1. listen, hear, hark, harken

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “èist”, 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), “éistid, éitsid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language