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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English phone.
Pronunciation
Noun
fòn m or f (genitive singular fòn, plural fònaichean)
- telephone
Usage notes
- This recently borrowed word has not fully been integrated into Scottish Gaelic grammar. Thus, in the dative case, air a' fòn (“on the phone”) is usually heard, rather than the grammatically expected air an fhòn.
Derived terms
Verb
fòn (past dh'fhòn, future fònaidh, verbal noun fònadh, past participle fònte)
- telephone
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| fòn |
fhòn
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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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