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Three Ways to Say “Keeping Your Nose to the Grindstone” in Irish without Using the Words for “Nose” or “Grindstone” – Is é sin a rá, cora cainte atá difriúil ar fad i bhfoclaíocht ach mar a gcéanna (beagnach) i gciall Posted by róislín on Aug 31, 2017
(le Róislín) In the most recent blogpost (nasc thíos), we did some discussion of noses (sróna) and grindstones (clocha líofa), which led to an interesting vocabulary work-out. In today’s post, we’ll actually look at some more traditional ways of saying “to keep your nose to the grindstone,” none of which mention noses or grindstones. This…
Cé chomh fada is atá an tsrón? (How long is the nose?) Posted by róislín on Jun 30, 2017
(le Róislín) Last time, we looked the various forms of the word “srón” (nose) in Irish, including “sróine,” “sróna,” and “tsrón.” We also mentioned several types of noses, to be discussed in this and/or future blogs (the once and future blog?). Today, we’ll start with the two types of noses shown in the graphic…
Sróna Suimiúla: The Irish Word for ‘Nose’ in its Different Forms Posted by róislín on Jun 28, 2017
(le Róislín) Bhuel, last time we looked at various features of a cat’s face and named them in Irish (nasc thíos). For the next few entries, we’ll look at some more examples of those features, starting with sróna (noses). You may find, as I did, that we don’t tend to use the word “nose” in…
Cén Sórt Sróine Atá ag Rúdolf? (Cuid a Trí, 3/3) Posted by róislín on Dec 21, 2011
(le Róislín) Cé leis an tsrón seo? An le fia í? An le réinfhia í? An le Rúdolf í? An le hainmhí eile í, madra mar shampla? Here’s the last installment of the expanded version of Rudolph questionnaire, first posted in 2009 at https://blogs.transparent.com/irish/ceistiuchan-faoi-rudolf-an-reinfhia/. Today’s blog deals with the original question 12, and now, lo and behold, it takes…
Rúdolf an Réinfhia – Redux (Cuid a hAon, 1/3) Posted by róislín on Dec 15, 2011
(le Róislín) As some of you may recall, we did a Rudolph questionnaire in this blog cúpla Nollaig ó shin. With so many new readers, I thought I’d do a new revised version of it. If you check the original (https://blogs.transparent.com/irish/ceistiuchan-faoi-rudolf-an-reinfhia/), you’ll see I am making some athruithe beaga and adding some nótaí maidir le fuaimniú. So I’ll actually…