umpa

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish impu. Cognates include Irish umpu and Manx moo.

Pronunciation

(Uist) IPA^(key): /ˈuːmbə/
(Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈuːmbʌ/

Pronoun

umpa

(dated) third-person plural of mu: about them

Usage notes

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

Inflection

Personal inflection of mu
	Person:		simple	emphatic
singular	first		umam	umamsa
	second		umad	umadsa
	third	m	uime	uimesan
	third	f	uimpe	uimpese

plural	first		umainn	umainne
	second		umaibh	umaibhse
	third		umpa	umpasan

References

^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 73
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 101

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