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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
A pleonastic formation from treas (“third”) + -amh (ordinal suffix).
Pronunciation
Numeral
an treasamh
- third
- Synonyms: treas, trìtheamh
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh