lìon
Scottish Gaelic
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish lín (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Celtic *līnom (“flax”).[2]
Noun
editlìon m (genitive singular lìn, plural lìontan)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Old Irish línaid, from lín (“full number, complement”).
Verb
editlìon (past lìon, future lìonaidh, verbal noun lìonadh, past participle lìonte)
- fill
- swell (e.g. tide)
- Tha an tìde-mhara a’ lìonadh.
- The tide is rising.
- Nuair a lìonas an tìde-mhara a-nìos gum mheadhan, feumaidh sinn falbh.
- When the tide rises [lit. "shall rise”] up to my waist, we must leave
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN