uinneag

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuindeóc, from Old Norse vindauga (literally “wind's eye”). Cognate with Scots winnock, English window, all from the same Old Norse source.

Pronunciation

Noun

uinneag f (genitive singular uinneige, plural uinneagan)

  1. (architecture) window
    Synonym: (archaic) feinistear
    dùin an uinneag! ― close the window!
    saoil an dùin thu an uinneag? ― would you please close the window? (literally, “I wonder if you would close the window”)
    a' tighinn air an uinneig ― coming through the window (i.e. climbing through it while open)
    a' tighinn tron uinneig ― coming through the window (i.e. crashing through it while closed)
    a' gearradh a-mach uinneagan ― cutting out windows
  2. (architecture, obsolete) recess in the wall of a kitchen used as a repository for miscellaneous articles

Declension

Declension of uinneag (class IIa feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative uinneag uinneagan
genitive uinneige, uinneig uinneag
dative uinneig uinneagan; uinneagaibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) uinneag (na) h-uinneagan
genitive (na) h-uinneige, h-uinneig (nan) uinneag
dative (an) uinneig (na) h-uinneagan; h-uinneagaibh✝
vocative uinneag uinneaga

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ 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
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uinneag”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuindeóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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