chunnaic

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ad·condairc, perfect of ad·cí, from the Proto-Celtic stem *derk-, from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxũn̪ˠɪkʲ/, [ˈxʊ̃n̪ˠɪkʲ][1]
  • (Colonsay, Islay) IPA(key): /ˈhɛn̪ˠɪkʲ/[2] (corresponding to the form theannaig)

Verb

chunnaic

  1. past indicative independent of faic
    Chunnaic sinn taigh. ― We saw a house.
    Chunnaic i tobhta. ― She saw a ruin.

Usage notes

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
  2. ^ Scouller, Alastair (2017) The Gaelic Dialect of Colonsay (PhD thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
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