abhag
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]abh (“barking of a dog”) + -ag (diminutive)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈavak/[1]
- (Uist) IPA(key): /ˈafak/[2]
- (Skye, Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ˈa.uk/[3][4][5]
Noun
[edit]abhag f (genitive abhaig, plural abhagan)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[2], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902), “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99[3], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88
- ^ 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 31
- ^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN