airsan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish foirsom. Cognates include Irish airsean and Manx ersyn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɾʲəs̪ən/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈeðəs̪ən/[1]

Pronoun

airsan

  1. third-person singular masculine emphatic of air: on him, on it

Inflection

Personal inflection of air
Person: simple emphatic
singular first orm ormsa
second ort ortsa
third m air airsan
f oirre oirrese
plural first oirnn oirnne
second oirbh oirbhse
third orra orrasan

References

  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
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