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Irish
Pronoun
astasan
- Alternative form of astusan
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish . Cognate with Irish astusan and Manx assdauesyn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈas̪təs̪ən/[1]
- Hyphenation: as‧ta‧san
Pronoun
astasan
- third-person plural emphatic of à: from them
Inflection
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
Further reading
- Colin Mark (2003) “à”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2