treasamh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

A pleonastic formation from treas (“third”) +‎ -amh (ordinal suffix).

Pronunciation

Numeral

an treasamh

  1. third
    Synonyms: treas, trìtheamh

Mutation

Mutation of treasamh
radical lenition
treasamh threasamh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 244
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