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Scottish Gaelic

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Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
40[a], [b]
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: ceithir
    Standalone: a ceithir
    Ordinal: ceathramh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4mh
    Personal: ceathrar
    Multiplier: ceithir-fillte
    Fractional: cairteal

Etymology

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From Old Irish cethair, from Proto-Celtic *kʷetwores, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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ceithir

  1. four

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of ceithir
radical lenition
ceithir cheithir

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. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[2], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  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