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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
leabaidh f (genitive singular leapa, nominative plural leapacha)
- Alternative form of leaba
Declension
Archaic inflection as a third-declension noun:
References
Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish lepaid (“harbourage, protection, bed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
leabaidh f (genitive leapa or leapach, plural leabaichean or leapannan)
- bed (for sleeping)
- couch
- bed (for flowers or vegetables)
- channel (of a river)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
- ^ 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