Tá ceist agam oraibh:

Bainim úsáid as mura an t-am ar fad, cé go dtuigim muna nuair a chloisimse é. Ach an bhfuil siad go hiomlán interchangable? Cén áit a cloistear mura in áit muna? Cad é bhur dtuairimí?

Tá mura sa bhfoclóir beag, ach níl muna! Níl me cinnte, ach ceapaim gurbh ceist foghraíochta/canúna atá ann.

mura [cónasc]
más rud é nach, dá mba ea nach (mura bhfuil deifir ort, mura dtiocfá liom, murar bhris tú é; murab ionann iad, murbh éagóir air é).

Tá nóta anseo faoi:
http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/gram.htm Féach Cab 6, agus téir síos an lch go mura.

(Message edited by aonghus on April 15, 2005)

(Message edited by aonghus on April 15, 2005)

They are interchangeable, just variants of the same word.

Chluinfeá mara, mura, muna, mana (thig siad uilig ón tSean-Ghaeilg "maní" < má + ní) srl. Is dóigh liom go ndeirtear "mara" i gConamara, agus muna/mura i dTír Chonaill. Chan cuimhin liom cad é ’bíos acu sin theas i gCorca Dhuíne agus i Múscraí.

(Message edited by Lughaidh on April 15, 2005)

"Mara" adeirtear sa Mumhain, agus "mur" nó "mura" i Maigh Eo.
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"But whereas eclipsis after ní remained confined to a couple of verbs, eclipsis after muna spread to all verbs. This extension of eclipsis was due mainly to confusion with mar a, 'where' (pron. marэ, mэrэ; mara bhfuil sé, 'unless he is,' and mar a bhfuil sé, 'where he is,' are pronounced exactly alike. Mac Aingil (1618), who as a rule is careful to employ only the classical form muna, leniting (e.g. muna fhoil, muna fhaghthar, muna thuga, muna ghlacthar), once lets slip from his pen the colloquial mar a bhfaghthar, in the sense of 'if it is not got.'

— T.F. O'Rahilly, "Irish Dialects Past and Present"