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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
air + beulaibh, the archaic dative plural form of beul.
Pronunciation
Preposition
air beulaibh (+ genitive or possessive determiner)
- in front of
Usage notes
- Used with a pronoun or genitive form of a noun.
- air ur beulaibh - in front of you
- air beulaibh an taighe - in front of the house
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99, Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh