a'
See also: Appendix:Variations of "a"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adverb edit
a' (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of a (“all”) [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
Adjective edit
a' (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of a (“all”) [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
Etymology 2 edit
Preposition edit
a'
- (archaic) Alternative form of a (“in”)
- 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
- SIL. What, a' God's name, could come into the heads
- Of this people to make them rebel?
- ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads
- A' God's name.
- GER. But what a devil made the noblemen
- Rebel? they never mind religion.
- 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
Bambara edit
Pronoun edit
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Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
a’
- (nonstandard) Contraction of an (used to form direct and indirect questions).
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
- Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é. […] Chuaidh an rí é féin síos annsin ⁊ d’fhiafraigh dhi a’ bpósfadh sí é.
- He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him. […] The king himself then went down, and asked her would she marry him.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Contraction edit
a'
- Clipping of ai.
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Particle edit
a'
- (regional, informal) uttered before a noun to call whoever it is referred to
- A' Gigi, viè qua!
- Gigi, come here!
- E che mi lasciate qua? A' 'nfami!
- Are you leaving me here? You bastards!
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
a'
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English all, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”).
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
a'
Adverb edit
a'
- all
- 1852–1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs[1]:
- / Like dew on the gowan lying / Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; / And like winds in summer sighing, / Her voice is low and sweet— / Her voice is low and sweet, / And she's a' the world to me, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun edit
a' (uncountable)
- all
- 1825, “Who’s at My Window”, in Allan Cunningham, compiler, The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for John Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 334:
- There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’, the ha’, / There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’: / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride’s daftest of a’, of a’, / And our young bride’s daftest of a’.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “a', adj.,adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- “a'” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[2], 2016.
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Article edit
a'
- inflection of an (“the”):
- dative or genitive singular masculine preceding g-, c-, b-, m- or p-
- nominative or dative singular feminine preceding g-, c-, b-, m-, p-
- Seall air a' corra-lod! ― Look at the mess!
Declension edit
Variation of a' (definite article) | |||||||||
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Masculine | Feminine | Plural | |||||||
nom. | dat. | gen. | nom. | dat. | gen. | nom. | dat. | gen. | |
+ f- | am | anL | anL | na | na | nam | |||
+ m-, p- or b- | am | a'L | a'L | na | na | nam | |||
+ c- or g- | an | a'L | a'L | na | na | nan | |||
+ sV-, sl-, sn- or sr- | an | anT | anT | na | na | nan | |||
+ other consonant | an | an | an | na | na | nan | |||
+ vowel | anT | an | an | naH | naH | nan | |||
L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; T Triggers T-prothesis |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Particle edit
a'
- (before consonants) Apocopic form of ag
- Tha Seoc a' fuireach ann an Glaschu. - Jock lives in Glasgow.
- Dè tha thu a' leughadh? - What are you reading?
Usage notes edit
- In the Lewis dialect, ri is used instead.
- Scottish Gaelic has no simple present tense of regular verbs, so constructions with a', ag, or ri are used for both simple and progressive present tenses in English.
Tarantino edit
Etymology edit
Preposition edit
a'
Yagaria edit
Noun edit
a'
References edit
- John Haiman, Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea