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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish bát (compare Irish bád, Manx baatey), borrowed from Old English bāt.
Pronunciation
Noun
bàta m (genitive singular bàta, plural bàtaichean or bàtan)
- boat
- pinnace
- barge
Usage notes
- Although the noun is masculine, the feminine pronoun i is used.
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| bàta |
bhàta
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàta”, 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), “bát”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language