fòn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fon"

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English phone.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /foːn/

Noun

fòn m or f (genitive singular fòn, plural fònaichean)

  1. telephone

Usage notes
  • This recently borrowed word has not fully been integrated into Scottish Gaelic grammar. Thus, in the dative case, air a' fòn (“on the phone”) is usually heard, rather than the grammatically expected air an fhòn.

Derived terms

Verb

fòn (past dh'fhòn, future fònaidh, verbal noun fònadh, past participle fònte)

  1. telephone

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
fònfhòn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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