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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish innocht, from the definite article in followed by an oblique case form of Proto-Celtic *noxs.
Pronunciation
Adverb
a-nochd
- tonight
- Cha tig e a-nochd. ― He will not come tonight.
- a-nochd is an-raoir ― tonight and last night
See also
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “a-nochd”, 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), “innocht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language