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Irish
Pronoun
umainn (emphatic umainne)
- first-person plural of um
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish immunn. Cognates include Irish umainn and Manx mooin.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
umainn
- (dated) first-person plural of mu: about us
Usage notes
- Rarely used now outside of the set phrase cuir umainn (“put on (of clothes)”). More commonly replaced by a compound preposition form such as timcheall oirnn or mun cuairt oirnn.
Inflection
References
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 161
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 183
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 9