dh'
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dh"
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (before (fh)a, (fh)á, (fh)o, (fh)ó, (fh)u, (fh)ú) /ɣ/, (before (fh)e, (fh)é, (fh)i, (fh)í) /j/
Particle
[edit]dh’
- (nonstandard) Used after a (“to”) before a lenited verbal noun starting with a vowel sound.
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Ní raibh aon fhear óg uasal timpall ná go raibh ag tnúth le Máire Bhán a dh’fhagháil le pósadh, ach ní raibh aon mhaith d’aoinne bheith á lorg.
- There wasn’t any young gentleman around but that he longed to get Blonde Mary in marriage, but it was no good for anyone to ask her.
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (before (fh)a, (fh)à, (fh)o, (fh)ò, (fh)u, (fh)ù) /ɣ/, (before (fh)e, (fh)è, (fh)i, (fh)ì) /ʝ/
Particle
[edit]dh’
- Used for leniting vowels.
Usage notes
[edit]- If a grammatical rule demands lenition of words beginning with a consonant, eg when creating an infinitive or a past tense form, this particle is added as a prefix to words beginning with a vowel.
- snàmh — swim
- a shnàmh — to swim
- shnàmh mi — I swam
- a shnàmh — to swim
- òl — drink
- a dh’òl — to drink
- dh’òl mi — I drank
- a dh’òl — to drink
- snàmh — swim