oirre
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish furi. Cognates include Irish uirthi and Manx urree.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɔrˠə/
- (Harris, Barra) IPA(key): [ˈɔrˠʌ][1]
- (south Skye) IPA(key): /ˈɔrˠhə/
- (Wester Ross) IPA(key): [ˈɔɹ̝ʲhə~ˈɔjhə][2]
- (Islay) IPA(key): /ˈurˠə/ (as if spelled uirre)
Pronoun
[edit]oirre
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of air | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | orm | ormsa | ||||||
| 2nd | ort | ortsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | air | airsan | |||||||
| 3rd f | oirre | oirrese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | oirnn | oirnne | ||||||
| 2nd | oirbh | oirbhse | |||||||
| 3rd | orra | orrasan | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ 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