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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish immi. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic uime.
Preposition
Pronoun
uime (emphatic uimesean)
- third-person singular masculine of um
Adverb
uime
- why (relative), for which reason
Quotations
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141:əs imə šin, ə dūŕc mē leš n̥ xȧnc šin.- [Is uime sin a dúirt mé leis an chaint sin.]
- That’s why I said that to him
- (literally, “…I said that speech…”)
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish immi. Cognates include Irish uime.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
uime
- third-person singular masculine of mu: about him
Inflection
References
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 124, page 99
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141
- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh