dhiubh
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish diib. Cognates include Irish díobh and Manx jeu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]dhiubh
- third-person plural of de: of them
Inflection
[edit]| Personal inflection of de | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | dhìom | dhìomsa | ||||||
| 2nd | dhìot | dhìotsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | dheth | dhethsan | |||||||
| 3rd f | dhith | dhithse | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | dhinn | dhinne | ||||||
| 2nd | dhibh | dhibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | dhiubh | dhiubhsan | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh