Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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Probably from Scots sneeshin. See Irish snaoisín.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snaoisean m (genitive singular snaoisein)

  1. snuff

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
snaoisean shnaoisean
after "an", t-snaoisean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ 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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “snaoisean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “snaoisean”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN
  • snaoisean” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.