Hopefully this will prove an entertaining but useful review of the seanfhocail we just learned.  Below we’ll have a few more proverbs to fill in that will be new for this blog (old, of course, mar eolas traidisiúnta).  The choices are given first in a word bank, since columns may not work out in the various forms in which this blog is read:

 

Bunachar focal: chaint, ciúin, ionann, briathra, ola, shrón, folamh, dias, ciúin, más

 

1. Is minic a¹ bhris béal duine a² ______.        

 

2. Soitheach ________ is mó torann.   

 

3. Is ___ iad na linnte lána.                                  

 

4. Is é an ____ is troime is ísle a chromann a ceann.   

 

5. ___ maith leat síocháin, cairdeas, ‘s moladh, — éist, feic, agus fan balbh.     

 

                                                                       

6. Ní dhéanfaidh an _________ an obair.  . 

 

7. Ní bheathaíonn na _________ na bráithre.

 

8. Faigheann an roth díoscánach an ____     

 

9. Is minic _____ ciontach..                                   

 

10. Is __________ toil ‘s éisteacht.                    

 

 

Seanfhocail Nach Raibh sa Bhlag Seo Cheana (“Seanfhocail Nua”)

 

Bunachar focal: iasc, mhóra, gandal

 

1. Na héisc bheaga a bheathaíos na héisc ______.

2. Má chuireann tú gé go dtí an domhan theas, ní bheidh sí ina ___ a’ teacht ar ais

                                                               

3. Tá dúil ag an chat san ___ ach cha fhliuchann sé a chuid cosa le é a fháil. 

 

Nótaí: a¹, that; a², his; dias, ear of corn; is, “-est” or “most” in phrases like “is mó” (from “mór”), “is troime” (from “trom”), and “is ísle” (from “íseal”); más, if it is (not the noun “más,” buttock, ham); díoscánach, squeaky; ciontach, guilty; beathaigh, feed, nourish; domhan theas, southern world; gandal, gander; dúil, desire; cha=ní (Donegal Irish); fliuch, wet (verb or adjective); a fháil, to get