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Another Irish Word Beginning with the Letter ‘Y’ (‘Yólais’ as well as ‘yó-yó,’ etc.) Posted by róislín on Aug 4, 2018
(le Róislín) A few years ago I ran a mionsraith of blagmhíreanna about Irish words that started with some of the litreacha neamhthraidisiúnta in the Irish alphabet, like v, w, x, and y (naisc thíos). Among the few examples that we have for “y” are “yó-yó” (not surprisingly, just add the síneadh fada) and yaincín…
Diamant = ∞ (or should that be “= diamant ∞”?) Posted by róislín on Jun 5, 2012
(le Róislín) In the last blog, we talked about diamonds, and the various forms of the word in Irish (diamant, diamaint, na ndiamant, srl.). Meanwhile, I’ve been racking my brain to come with a catchy translation of the now-classic phrase “A diamond is forever.” Here I was thinking it probably…