dhuinn
See also: dhúinn
Irish
editAdjective
editdhuinn
- Lenited form of duinn.
Scottish Gaelic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish dúnn. Cognates include Irish dúinn.
Pronunciation
edit- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ɣɤ̃ĩɲ/[1]
- (Uist) IPA(key): /ɣuiɲ/[2]
- (Barra) IPA(key): /ɣuiɲ/, (unstressed) [ɣɪɲ][3]
- (Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ɣɯ̃ĩɲ/[4]
Pronoun
editdhuinn
- first-person plural of do: to us, for us
Inflection
edit| Personal inflection of do | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | dhomh | dhòmhsa | ||||||
| 2nd | dhut | dhutsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | dha | dhàsan | |||||||
| 3rd f | dhi | dhìse | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | dhuinn | dhuinne | ||||||
| 2nd | dhuibh | dhuibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | dhaibh | dhaibhsan | |||||||
References
edit- ^ 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)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN