fodham
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish foam. Cognate with Irish fúm and Manx foym.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.əm/[1]
- (Uist, Barra) IPA(key): /ˈfo.əm/, [ˈfoˑ.əm][2][3]
- Hyphenation: fodh‧am
Pronoun
[edit]fodham
- first-person singular of fo: under me
- Bha an rathad fodham a-nis. ― The road was now below me.
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of fo | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | fodham | fodhamsa | ||||||
| 2nd | fodhad | fodhadsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | fodha | fodhasan | |||||||
| 3rd f | fòidhpe | fòidhpese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | fodhainn | fodhainne | ||||||
| 2nd | fodhaibh | fodhaibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | fòdhpa | fòdhpasan | |||||||
References
[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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
[edit]- Colin Mark (2003) “fo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307