eatarra

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish etarru. Cognates include Irish eatarthu.

Pronunciation

  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈaʰt̪ərˠ(ə)/[1]
  • (Harris, Uist) IPA(key): /ˈeht̪ərˠə/[2]
  • (Barra) IPA(key): /ˈeht̪ərˠʌ/[3]
  • (Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈet̪ərˠatʲ/, /ˈet̪əɾʲu.u/[4] (corresponding to the forms eadaraid and eadariutha)
  • Hyphenation: ea‧tar‧ra

Pronoun

eatarra

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