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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From English sort. Compare Irish sórt (“kind, variety”).
Pronunciation
Noun
seòrsa m (genitive singular seòrsa, plural seòrsaichean or seòrsachan)
- sort, type, kind, category
- breed, genus, species, tribe
- gender, sex
Particle
seòrsa
- like (approximate quotation)
- bha mi... seòrsa... chan eil fhios 'am ― I was, like, "I don't know"
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| seòrsa |
sheòrsa
after "an", t-seòrsa
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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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References
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seòrsa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN