a-nis

See also: anis, Anis, anís, and -anis

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

a-nisd, a-nise, a-nist, nis, nise

Etymology

From Old Irish indossa^[1] (compare Irish anois, Manx nish).

Pronunciation

(Lewis) IPA^(key): /(ə) ˈnĩʃ/, /(ə) ˈnĩʃə/^[2]
(North Uist) IPA^(key): /(ə) ˈnɛʃtʲ/^[3] (corresponding to the form a-neist)
(South Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /(ə) ˈniʃtʲ/^[4] (corresponding to the form a-nist)

Adverb

a-nis

now

See also

an-dràsta

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indossa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ 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
^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎^[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

Edward Dwelly (1911) “a-nis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

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