suipeir

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

suipear

Etymology

From Middle Irish suipér (whence also Irish suipéar and Manx shibber), from Anglo-Norman soper; compare English supper and French souper.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈs̪uihpəɾʲ/
(West Side Lewis) IPA^(key):
(South Argyll, Sutherland) IPA^(key):

Noun

suipeir f (genitive singular suipeire, plural suipeirean)

supper

Mutation

Mutation of *suipeir*
radical	lenition
suipeir	shuipeir after "an", t-suipeir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suipér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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