umaibh

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Irish

Pronoun

umaibh (emphatic umaibhse)

  1. second-person plural of um

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish immib. Cognates include Irish umaibh and Manx miu.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

umaibh

  1. (dated) second-person plural of mu: about you

Usage notes

  • Rarely used now outside of the set phrase cuir umaibh (“put on (of clothes)”). More commonly replaced by a compound preposition form such as timcheall oirbh or mun cuairt oirbh.

Inflection

Personal inflection of mu
Person: simple emphatic
singular first umam umamsa
second umad umadsa
third m uime uimesan
f uimpe uimpese
plural first umainn umainne
second umaibh umaibhse
third umpa umpasan

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 161
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 183
  3. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 9
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