suipear

See also: suipéar

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish suipér (whence also Irish suipéar and Manx shibber), from Anglo-Norman soper; compare English supper and French souper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪uihpəɾ/

Noun

suipear f (genitive singular suipearach, plural suipearan)

1. supper

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suipér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language