eòrna
See also: eorna
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish eórna (compare Irish eorna, Manx oarn), from *yewornio-, from Proto-Celtic *yeu- (compare Breton yell (“spelt”)), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwos (“barley”) (compare Lithuanian javaĩ (“grain”), Persian جو (jaw), Sanskrit यव (yava)).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeòrna m (genitive singular eòrna, plural eòrna)
Derived terms
edit- sùgh an eòrna (“poetic term for whisk(e)y”)
- Tìr an Eòrna (“Tiree; Uist”)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
eòrna | n-eòrna | h-eòrna | t-eòrna |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “eòrna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eórna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- gd:Grains