airson

• air son

Combination of preposition air (“on/for”) and noun son (“sake”); compare Irish ar son. Before the spelling reform of the 1980s it was sometimes written as two words.

• [erˈsɔn̪] : note the stress on the second syllable, which is unusual in Scottish Gaelic - a result of its origins as a contraction of a multiple word unit, now merely written as a single word, an orthographic choice with no hyphenation, unless there is an pronominal object (argument) that separates the constituent words.

airson

1. for, for the sake of
   • Tha mi fada nad chomain airson do litreach. - I am much obliged to you for your letter.
   • Tha iad a' coimhead airson taighe ùire. - They are looking for a new house.
   • A bheil thu airson falbh? - Do you want to leave? (literally Are you for leaving?)
2. (before a verbal noun): desirous of, wanting to
   • Tha iad airson falbh. - They want to go.

• The following noun is in the genitive form.
• When used with a personal pronoun, the appropriate possessive pronoun is put in between air and son instead:

  Rinn Cailean sin air ur son. - Colin made that for you.

  An tèid thu ann air mo shon? - Will you go there for me?

• air a shon sin