suipear

See also: suipéar

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish suipér (whence also Irish suipéar and Manx shibber), from Anglo-Norman soper; compare English supper and French souper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪uihpəɾ/

Noun

suipear f (genitive singular suipearach, plural suipearan)

1. supper

Mutation

Mutation of suipear

radical	lenition
suipear	shuipear after "an", t-suipear

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suipér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language