sneachda

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish snechtae.

Pronunciation

Noun

sneachda m (genitive singular sneachda, plural sneachdachan)

  1. snow

Declension

Declension of sneachda (type III masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative sneachda sneachdachan
genitive sneachda shneachdachan
dative sneachda sneachdachan
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) sneachda (na) sneachdachan
genitive (an) t-sneachda (nan) sneachdachan
dative (an) t-sneachda (na) sneachdachan
vocative shneachda shneachdachan

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of sneachda
radical lenition
sneachda shneachda
after "an", t-sneachda

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

  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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), “The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire”, in A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, volume II, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 132
  3. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 89
  4. ^ Scouller, Alastair (2017), The Gaelic Dialect of Colonsay (PhD thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 188
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