leannan

See also: leannán

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish lennán (“(male) lover, sweetheart, beloved”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʎan̪ˠan/[1][2]

Noun

leannan m (genitive singular leannain, plural leannain)

  1. lover, sweetheart
    A leannain ghrinn, ciamar a theirinn cia mheud a tha gràdh agam ort? - O sweet darling, how could I say how much I love thee?

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
  2. ^ 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 36
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