a-cheana

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cene; cognate with Welsh gynneu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(ə) ˈçɛnə/

Adverb

a-cheana

  1. already
    Bha sinn air a bhith thairis air seo a-cheana. ― We had been over this already.
  2. actually

Synonyms

Further reading

  • Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 13
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