seòrsa

See also: seorsa

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From EnglishCategory:Scottish Gaelic terms borrowed from English#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic terms derived from English#SEORSA sort. Compare Irish sórt (“kind, variety”).

Pronunciation

Noun

seòrsa m (genitive singular seòrsa, plural seòrsaichean or seòrsachan)Category:Scottish Gaelic lemmas#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic nouns#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns#SEORSACategory:Pages with entries#SEÒRSACategory:Pages with 1 entry#SEÒRSACategory:gd-noun 2

  1. sort, type, kind, category
  2. breed, genus, species, tribe
  3. gender, sex

Particle

seòrsaCategory:Scottish Gaelic lemmas#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic particles#SEORSACategory:Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header#SEORSACategory:Pages with entries#SEÒRSACategory:Pages with 1 entry#SEÒRSA

  1. like (approximate quotation)
    bha mi... seòrsa... chan eil fhios 'am ― I was, like, "I don't know"Category:Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples#SEORSA

Mutation

Mutation of seòrsa
radical lenition
seòrsasheòrsa
after "an", t-seòrsa

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

References

  1. ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 349
  3. ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937), The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “seòrsa”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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