Method 8 for Plurals: -tean for -e
April 30, 2011
The title says it all.
- Some nouns that end in e substitute tean.
Examples:
- baile/ bailtean (BAH-luh/ BAHL-chen) town/ towns
- coille/ coilltean (KOH-il-uh/ KOH-il-chen) a wood/ woods
- buaile/ buailtean (BOO-uh-luh/ BOO-ul-chen) sheep fold/ sheep folds
- àite/ àitean (AHCH-uh/ AHCH-en) place/ places
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LOL I could really mess up if not careful. buaile and buail.
assuming that the “t” for tean is always the “ch” sound as in -church- ?
Hi, Renea,
How are you? T is pronounced CH when it has a slender vowel (i or e) before or after it. If it has a broad vowel (a, o, or u) before or after it, then it is pronounced T. (Except in lenition, when it becomes TH and it is either pronounced H or becomes silent.)