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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish fuindeóc, from Old Norse vindauga (literally wind's eye). Cognate with Scots winnock, English window, all from the same Old Norse source.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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uinneag f (genitive singular uinneige, plural uinneagan)

  1. (architecture) window
    Synonym: (archaic) feinistear
    dùin an uinneag!close the window!
    saoil an dùin thu an uinneag?would you please close the window? (literally, “I wonder if you would close the window”)
    a' tighinn air an uinneigcoming through the window (i.e. climbing through it while open)
    a' tighinn tron uinneigcoming through the window (i.e. crashing through it while closed)
    a' gearradh a-mach uinneagancutting out windows
  2. (architecture, obsolete) recess in the wall of a kitchen used as a repository for miscellaneous articles

Declension

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Declension of uinneag (class IIa feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative uinneag uinneagan
genitive uinneige, uinneig uinneag
dative uinneig uinneagan; uinneagaibh
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) uinneag (na) h-uinneagan
genitive (na) h-uinneige, h-uinneig (nan) uinneag
dative (an) uinneig (na) h-uinneagan; h-uinneagaibh
vocative uinneag uinneaga

obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of uinneag
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uinneag n-uinneag h-uinneag t-uinneag

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

References

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  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
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uinneag”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuindeóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language