aosda
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”)[1] (compare Irish aosta), from áes (“age, years; stage, period of life; lifetime; age of the world, era”). By surface analysis, aois + -da.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editaosda
Mutation
edit| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aosda | n-aosda | h-aosda | t-aosda |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
edit- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap