eadaraibh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish etruib. Cognates include Irish eadraibh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈet̪əɾəv/, /ˈet̪əɾu/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈaʰt̪ɾu/[1] (corresponding to the form eatraibh)
  • (Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈet̪əɾɪp/, /ˈet̪əɾʲɯi/[2] (corresponding to the forms eadaraib and eadairibh)
  • Hyphenation: ea‧da‧raibh

Pronoun

eadaraibh

  1. second-person plural of eadar: between you

Inflection

Personal inflection of eadar
Person: simple emphatic
singular first
second
third m
f
plural first eadarainn eadarainne
second eadaraibh eadaraibhse
third eatarra eatarrasan

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. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

Further reading

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