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25 Ways to Say ‘Family’ in Irish, Cuid a hAon (Pt. 1) Posted by on Feb 25, 2016

(le Róislín)   In a recent blog (nasc thíos), we examined the word ‘muirín,’ one of many Irish words for ‘family.’  As you may recall, we looked at “muirín” in comparison to a homograph (muirín as “a scallop,” of all things!) and also in comparison to the similarly-spelled múirín, which has two distinct meanings, 1)…

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