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How to say ‘water-lily’ in Irish, without using the word ‘uisce’ (water) Posted by róislín on Jun 17, 2019
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(le Róislín) Intriguingly, Irish has quite a few words for water-lily. For water-lilies in general, we have bual-lile, bior-rós, duilleog bháite, and póicín locha. More specifically, for distinct types, we have bacán bán or duilleog bháite bhán, for the white, and cabhán abhann, duilleog bháite bhuí, and liach-loghar, for the yellow. With compound words like…