Define:Million
Scots eedit
Etymologie eedit
Frae Auld French, frae Italian milione (“million”), frae mille (“thousand”) (frae Laitin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one.
Pronunciation eedit
- IPA(Whit's this?): /ˈməljən/[citation needit]
Spellin variants eedit
- mulȝeon
Noon eedit
million (plural million or millions)
- [1] (lang an short scales) the cairdinal nummer 1,000,000: 106; a thoosan thoosan
- (West Central, urban) Wi ower 1.5 mulȝeon fowk reportin thit they spik Scots at the 2011 census there, hit’s aften heard athort Scotland, an noo hit’s increasinly oot in public.
- — Dr. Michael Dempster, director o the Centre for the Scots Leid[1]
- (West Central, urban) Wi ower 1.5 mulȝeon fowk reportin thit they spik Scots at the 2011 census there, hit’s aften heard athort Scotland, an noo hit’s increasinly oot in public.
- [2] (colloquial, hyperbolic) an undeemous, gey muckle nummer
- A'v telt ye a million time awreadie.
References eedit
- ↑ Rab Wilson (24 October 2019). "We hae a new generation o bonnie young fechters fir Scots!". The National (in Inglis). Retrieved 15 October 2020.