ionnsaigh

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Noun

ionnsaigh m or f (genitive ionnsaigh, plural ionnsaighean)

  1. attack, invasion, assault, charge
  2. attempt, effort, try
  3. shock

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99[2], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap