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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish , from Old Irish eter. Cognates include Irish idir and Manx eddyr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈet̪əɾ/
- Hyphenation: ea‧dar
Preposition
eadar (+ nominative)
- between
eadar (+ nominative, triggers lenition)
- (rare) both
- eadar bheag is mhòr ― both big and small
Inflection
Derived terms
See also
References
- Colin Mark (2003) “eadar”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eter, etir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language