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Cén Áit? vs. Cén Fhad?: Two Different Questions That Sound Almost Alike Posted by róislín on Jul 31, 2013
(le Róislín) Lately I’ve been wondering if there’s a good Irish equivalent for the English expression, “to put your foot in your mouth.” The main ingredients are straight forward enough. The usual word for “foot” is “cos,” although that can also mean “leg,” which could suggest that one is even more of a “freangálaí” than…
Is Éan É! Is Eitleán É! Ní Hea — Dreige Atá Ann! (Sorry, Clark!) Posted by róislín on Feb 16, 2013
(le Róislín) Or should that be “dreigít“? Or “dreigeoideach“? Bhuel, all three really, I guess, depending on what stage of the event you’re talking about. I thought I had learned all that téarmaíocht réalteolaíoch, at least the buntéarmaí, years ago, but when the news reports start coming in about the Chelyabinsk event, I realized I…
Cialla an Fhocail “Log” (hollow, place, hollow place, etc.) Posted by róislín on Aug 28, 2012
(le Róislín) In the last blog, we looked at terms for various types of horses (stail, láir, bromach, cliobóg, searrach, srl.) and at different ways to describe them, including the Irish for “sway-backed horse” (capall a bhfuil log sa droim aige / aici). The word “log” in that phrase actually has many other interesting applications…
Logainmneacha le “an” agus Guta (a, e, i, o, u): An Afraic, An Aird Mhóir, srl. Posted by róislín on Jul 30, 2011
(le Róislín) The last major segment of this logainmneacha series will deal with place names that have the definite article “an” and where the actual place names starts with a vowel. So far, for a quick review, we’ve seen samplaí of the various other combinations, like: i (ins) + an + consan: An Ghearmáin, sa…