Talk:a-bhuas

RFV discussion: June–August 2020
Looks to me like somebody meant ' but got it confused with '. Never came across it and haven't found it in any of my dictionaries either. --Droigheann (talk) 19:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't confirm or deny the existence of, but is sense 2 of correct? Does it really mean both "down towards the speaker" and "up towards the speaker"? Irish uses  for the former, while the latter is . Does Scottish Gaelic not make the same distinction between  and  that Irish makes between  and ? —Mahāgaja · talk 20:31, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That is indeed the case in Scottish Gaelic as well, but in some dialects  disappeared and a-nuas is used for both, cf eg here: "Confusingly, some dialects have merged a-nuas and a-nìos into a-nuas, in which case a-nuas stands for 'movement towards you either upwards or downwards'." I tagged the sense as dialectal. --Droigheann (talk) 20:40, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * RFV-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:07, 24 August 2020 (UTC)