dhàsan

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish dosom. Cognates include Irish dósan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɣaːs̪ən/[1]
  • Hyphenation: dhà‧san

Pronoun

dhàsan

  1. third-person singular masculine emphatic of do; to him, for him

Inflection

Personal inflection of do
Person: simple emphatic
singular first dhomh dhòmhsa
second dhut dhutsa
third m dha dhàsan
f dhi dhìse
plural first dhuinn dhuinne
second dhuibh dhuibhse
third dhaibh dhaibhsan

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 54