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Where does “-sa” come from?

-sa (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish -sa — emphatic first-person singular suffix.

-sa (Scottish Gaelic): -self

Definitions

  1. -self

Ancestry of “-sa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irish-saemphatic first-person singular suffix

Words derived from “-sa”

  • asadsa
  • ormsa
  • dhutsa
  • uamsa
  • tharamsa
  • asamsa
  • riutsa
  • umadsa
  • fodhadsa
  • agadsa
  • ortsa
  • bhuatsa
  • agamsa
  • dhòmhsa
  • thusa
  • dhìomsa
  • thugamsa
  • dhìotsa
  • umamsa
  • romhadsa
  • leatsa
  • tromhadsa
  • fodhamsa
  • leamsa
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