umainn

Irish

Pronoun

umainn (emphatic umainne)

  1. first-person plural of um

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish immunn. Cognates include Irish umainn and Manx mooin.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

umainn

  1. (dated) first-person plural of mu: about us

Usage notes

  • Rarely used now outside of the set phrase cuir umainn (put on (of clothes)). More commonly replaced by a compound preposition form such as timcheall oirnn or mun cuairt oirnn.

Inflection

Personal inflection of mu
Person: simple emphatic
singular first umam umamsa
second umad umadsa
third m uime uimesan
f uimpe uimpese
plural first umainn umainne
second umaibh umaibhse
third umpa umpasan

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 161
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 183
  3. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 9