- aber
inbhear inbhir inver four
pedwar pevar peswar ceathair,
cheithre ceithir kiare night nos noz nos oíche
oidhche oie number† rhif, nifer† niver† niver†...
- aon *un un 2 dá dó dà *daa dau 3 trí trí trì tree tri 4
cethair ceathair ceithir kiare pedwar 5 cóic cúig còig
queig pump 6 sé sé sia shey
chwech 7 secht...
- trì [t̪ʰɾiː] four
kiare [kʲæːə(r)]
ceathair [cahərʲ],
ceithre [ˈcɛɾʲə]
ceithir [ˈkʲʰehɪɾʲ] five
queig [kweɡ] cúig [kuːɟ] còig [kʰoːkʲ] six shey [ʃeː]...
- 1947 and 1952:
Fuaran slèibh (1947), Wind on Loch Fyne (1948) and O na
ceithir àirdean (1952). Some of his
poetry was set to
music by
Francis George Scott...
-
ceann kione "head" *kʷetwar-
petuar pedwar peswar pevar *kʷetwar-
ceathair ceithir kiare "four" *kʷenkʷe
pempe pumpa pymp pemp *kʷenkʷe cúig còig
queig "five"...
-
Gaelic numeral English translation a h-aon one a dhà two a trì
three a
ceithir four a còig five a sia six a
seachd seven a h-ochd
eight a
naoidh nine...
-
quattuor Proto-Celtic kʷetwares "four" >
Irish ceathair,
Scottish Gaelic ceithir "four", but
Gaulish petuar[ios] "fourth",
Welsh pedwar "four", Old Breton...
-
Crofters Act of 1886. In one of her
songs of this period, ‘'Nuair
chaidh na
ceithir ùr oirre’’
Mairi describes a
crossing of the
Strome Ferry with Fraser-Mackintosh...
-
rights campaigners mentioned in her
celebrated poem
Nuair a
chaidh na
ceithir ùr oirre. Fraser-Mackintosh was
elected Member of
Parliament (MP) for Inverness...
- and
campaigned for
security of
tenure for crofters. In
Nuair Chaidh na
Ceithir Ùr Oirre, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
describes going with him,
Charles Fraser-Mackintosh...
