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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish fedan (“a band, company”), from Old Irish fedan (“carrying, the yoke”), verbal noun of feidid (“to bring, lead”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
feadhainn f (genitive feadhna or feadhnach)
- some
Bha feadhainn anns an taigh cuideachd.- There were some in the house as well.
Usage notes
- Used when referring to a plural subject.
- The plural article is often used, e.g. in the phrase na feadhainn bheaga (“the little ones”).
- For singular masculine and feminine subjects fear and tè, respectively, are used.
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| feadhainn |
fheadhainn
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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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- ^ 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
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap