aitreabh
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish atrab, from Proto-Celtic *attrebā (“settlement”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with English thorp and Albanian trevë.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aitreabh m (genitive singular aitreibh, plural aitreabhan)
Derived terms edit
- aitreabh-leighis (“sick bay, medical building”)
- aitreabhach (“habitable, pertaining to an abode, locative (in linguistics)”)
- aitreabhachd (“habitableness”)
- aitreabhach m (“inhabitant, lodger, farmer”)
- tuiseal aitreabhach (“locative case”)
Mutation edit
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aitreabh | n-aitreabh | h-aitreabh | t-aitreabh |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||