fodham

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish foam. Cognate with Irish fúm and Manx foym.

Pronunciation

(Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.əm/^[1]
(Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.əm/, ^[2]^[3]
Hyphenation: fodh‧am

Pronoun

fodham

first-person singular of fo: under me
Bha an rathad fodham a-nis. ― The road was now below me.

Inflection

Personal inflection of fo
	Person:		simple	emphatic
singular	first		fodham	fodhamsa
	second		fodhad	fodhadsa
	third	m	fodha	fodhasan
	third	f	fòidhpe	fòidhpese

plural	first		fodhainn	fodhainne
	second		fodhaibh	fodhaibhse
	third		fòdhpa	fòdhpasan

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
^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

Colin Mark (2003) “fo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307

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