fodha
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish fóu. Cognates include Irish faoi and Manx fo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfoə/
- Hyphenation: fodh‧a
Adverb
fodha
- down, underneath, sunken
- Chaidh am bàta fodha. ― The boat sank. (literally, “The boat went down.”)
Pronoun
fodha
- third-person singular masculine of fo: under him, under it
Inflection
| Personal inflection of fo | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | fodham | fodhamsa | ||||||
| 2nd | fodhad | fodhadsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | fodha | fodhasan | |||||||
| 3rd f | fòidhpe | fòidhpese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | fodhainn | fodhainne | ||||||
| 2nd | fodhaibh | fodhaibhse | |||||||
| 3rd | fòdhpa | fòdhpasan | |||||||
References
- Colin Mark (2003), “fo”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307