fodhaibh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish [Term?]. Cognates include Irish fúibh and Manx feue.

Pronunciation

  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.əv/[1]
  • (Uist, Barra) IPA(key): /ˈfo.əv/, [ˈfoˑ.əv][2][3]
  • (Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.əp/[4] (corresponding to the form fodhaib)
  • Hyphenation: fodh‧aibh

Pronoun

fodhaibh

  1. second-person plural of fo: under you

Inflection

Personal inflection of fo
Person: simple emphatic
singular first fodham fodhamsa
second fodhad fodhadsa
third m fodha fodhasan
f fòidhpe fòidhpese
plural first fodhainn fodhainne
second fodhaibh fodhaibhse
third fòdhpa fòdhpasan

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, page 222
  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, page 776

Further reading

  • Colin Mark (2003) “fo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307
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