àth
Scottish Gaelic edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish áth (compare Manx aah, Irish áth), from Proto-Celtic *yātus (“ford”).
Noun edit
àth m (genitive singular àth, plural àthan)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish áith f (“drying-kiln (for grain)”), from Proto-Celtic *ātis, from the same root as *h₂eh₁ter- (“fire”) (compare Latin āter, Serbo-Croatian vȁtra).
Noun edit
àth f (genitive singular àtha, plural àthan or àthannan)
Declension edit
Declension of àth (type IVb feminine noun)
Declension of àth (type IVb feminine noun)
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “àth”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language