oirbh

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fuirib. Cognates include Irish oraibh and Manx erriu.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

oirbh

  1. second-person plural of air: on you

Inflection

Personal inflection of air
Person: simple emphatic
singular first orm ormsa
second ort ortsa
third m air airsan
f oirre oirrese
plural first oirnn oirnne
second oirbh oirbhse
third orra orrasan

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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