aitreabh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish atrab, from Proto-Celtic *attrebā (“settlement”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with English thorp and Albanian trevë.

Pronunciation

Noun

aitreabh m (genitive singular aitreibh, plural aitreabhan)

  1. building, complex, dwelling

Derived terms

  • aitreabh-leighis (“sick bay, medical building”)
  • aitreabhach (“habitable, pertaining to an abode, locative (in linguistics)”)
  • aitreabhachd (“habitableness”)
  • aitreabhach m (“inhabitant, lodger, farmer”)
  • tuiseal aitreabhach (“locative case”)

Mutation

Mutation of aitreabh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aitreabh n-aitreabh h-aitreabh t-aitreabh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 41
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