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25 Ways to Say ‘Family’ in Irish, Cuid a Dó (Pt. 2) Posted by róislín on Feb 27, 2016
(le Róislín) In the last blog, we looked at the first four in our list of 25 ways to say “family” in Irish: teaghlach, clann, líon tí and comhluadar. Today we’ll continue with some words pertaining to the family as responsibility. We’ll use the same format, the basic term, the definitions, additional forms of the…
25 Ways to Say ‘Family’ in Irish, Cuid a hAon (Pt. 1) Posted by róislín 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)…
An Dá Mhuirín agus an Dá Mhúirín (families, scallops, and leaf-mould, oh my! — plus ‘showers’ but that would break ‘an mhéim’) Posted by róislín on Feb 22, 2016
(le Róislín) Sometimes it seems that no sooner do you learn one Irish word, than you find another one spelled in almost the same way. In some cases, these are, in fact, dialect variations of the same word (raibh/rabh nó madra/madadh, mar shampla). But often they are completely different words, sometimes with just a “fada” of…
An Dara Grúpa d’Fhocail: Curiosity, Passion, Interest, Heritage, Family (i nGaeilge) Posted by róislín on Sep 28, 2013
(le Róislín) In the previous blog we looked at the Irish for the five most prominent terms in this speech balloon. Seo iad: Eolas, Grá, Cultúr, Spraoi, Cairde. An cuimhin leat an Béarla atá orthu? The translations back into English are below (má tá cuidiú de dhíth ort). Anois, an chéad ghrúpa eile d’fhocail. But wait…