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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Perhaps from Old Irish Fionnbharr and Old Norse ey (literally “St Finbar's island”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Barraigh
- Barra (an island in Western Isles council area, Outer Hebrides, Scotland).
Descendants
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| Barraigh |
Bharraigh
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap