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Na hUimhreacha Pearsanta (ar leanúint) Posted by on Jan 10, 2011

(le Róislín) Cailín? Chailín? Cailíní? Chailíní? Mac? Mhac? Mic? Mhic?  So what’s all that about, and what does it have to do with the “personal numbers” in Irish? What you just read is a sequence of four different forms of the word for “girl” (cailín) and the word for “son” (mac).  In each case, the…

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