uileag

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Irish

Pronunciation

Determiner

uileag

  1. Connacht form of uile (“all, every”)

Adjective

uileag

  1. Connacht form of uile (“all, every”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uileag
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uileag n-uileag huileag not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 97
  2. ^ Ó Siadhail, Mícheál (1988) Learning Irish (in Irish), New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 38

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently a clipping of uile gu lèir, as stated of the Irish equivalent uileag, uilig in a letter from Holger Pedersen to Franz Nikolaus Finck.[1]

Pronunciation

Adverb

uileag

  1. Uist and Barra form of uile (“all”)

Adjective

uileag

  1. Uist and Barra form of uile (“all”)

Mutation

Mutation of uileag
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uileag n-uileag h-uileag t-uileag

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 270
  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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