suipeir

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• suipear

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): /ˈs̪uihpəɾʲ/
• (West Side Lewis) IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ihpað]
• (South Argyll, Sutherland) IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ipaɾ(ʲ)]

Noun

suipeir f (genitive singular suipeire, plural suipeirean)

1. supper

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
suipeir	shuipeir after "an", t-suipeir
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