eadar

See also: éadar and eadar-

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?],[1] from Old Irish eter. Cognates include Irish idir and Manx eddyr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈet̪əɾ/[2][3][4]
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈat̪əɾ/[5]
  • Hyphenation: ea‧dar

Preposition

eadar (+ nominative)

  1. between

eadar (+ nominative, triggers lenition)

  1. (rare) both; each, every
    eadar bheag is mhòrboth big and small
    eadar chlach is chuaille is chranneach stone and beam and stave

Inflection

Personal inflection of eadar
Person: simple emphatic
singular first
second
third m
f
plural first eadarainn eadarainne
second eadaraibh eadaraibhse
third eatarra eatarrasan
  • Obsolete singular forms: eadram (1st person), eadrad (2nd person)

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eter, etir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
  5. ^ 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

Further reading

  • Mark, Colin (2003) “eadar”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN