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Username: James_murphy
Post Number: 26
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 11:57 am: |   
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I've been wondering for some time about the suffix -(a)is
used in names for foreign languages eg. Gearmáinis, Breatnais, Spáinnis etc.
Is it of native Irish origin or is it a loan from another language, possibly Germanic?
Séamus Ó Murchadha
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 1940
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:40 pm: |
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Ceist shuimiúil. Is dócha gurbh é Seathrún Céitinn a d'úsáid an focal "Fraingcis" den chéad uair. Ní raibh an foirceann -is in úsáid i ré na Sean-Ghaeilge, go bhfios dom. Mar shampla:
Laiten = Laidin
Gréc = Gréigis
Ebrae = Eabhrais
Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.
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