Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish [Term?]. Cognates include Irish fúibh and Manx feue.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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fodhaibh

  1. second-person plural of fo: under you

Inflection

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Personal inflection of fo
Person: simple emphatic
singular first fodham fodhamsa
second fodhad fodhadsa
third m fodha fodhasan
f fòidhpe fòidhpese
plural first fodhainn fodhainne
second fodhaibh fodhaibhse
third fòdhpa fòdhpasan

References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

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  • Colin Mark (2003) “fo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307
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