umam

See also: ūmam

Irish

Pronoun

umam (emphatic umamsa)

  1. first-person singular of um

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish immum. Cognates include Irish umam and Manx moom.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

umam

  1. (dated) first-person singular of mu: about me
    Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gun robh iad a' bruidhinn umam.I think they were talking about me.

Usage notes

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

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. ^ Wentworth, Roy (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