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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Phrase
is fheàirrde (past/conditional b' fheàirrde)
- to be the better of, to be better off for
- 's fheàirrde duine gàire ― laughter is good for you (literally, “a man is better off for laughing”)
- chan fheàirrde thu siud ― you are not the better of that, that does you no good
References
- ^ 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