umad

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish immut. Cognates include Irish umat and Manx mood.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈũmət̪/[1][2][3]
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈũmət̪/, /ˈũ.ət̪/[4] (as if spelled umhad)

Pronoun

umad

  1. (dated) second-person singular of mu: about thee

Usage notes

  • Rarely used now outside of the set phrase cuir umad (put on (of clothes)). More commonly replaced by a compound preposition form such as timcheall ort or mun cuairt ort.

Inflection

Personal inflection of mu
Person: simple emphatic
singular first umam umamsa
second umad umadsa
third m uime uimesan
f uimpe uimpese
plural first umainn umainne
second umaibh umaibhse
third umpa umpasan

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 161
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 183
  3. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 9
  4. ^ 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, page 221