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uime

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish immi. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic uime.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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uime (emphatic uimesean)

  1. third-person singular masculine of um

Adverb

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uime

  1. why (relative), for which reason

Quotations

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  • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141:
    əs imə šin, ə dūŕc mē leš n̥ xȧnc šin.
    [Is uime sin a dúirt mé leis an chaint sin.]
    That’s why I said that to him
    (literally, “…I said that speech…”)

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 124, page 99
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish immi. Cognates include Irish uime.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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uime

  1. (dated) third-person singular masculine of mu: about him

Usage notes

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  • Rarely used now outside of the set phrase cuir uime (“put on (of clothes)”). More commonly replaced by a compound preposition form such as timcheall air or mun cuairt air.

Inflection

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Personal inflection of mu
Person: simple emphatic
singular first umam umamsa
second umad umadsa
third m uime uimesan
f uimpe uimpese
plural first umainn umainne
second umaibh umaibhse
third umpa umpasan

References

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  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 161
  2. ^ 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, page 221
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937), The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 183
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