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Evie
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Username: Evie
Post Number: 28
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:43 pm: |   
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So - I'm reading my "homework", and it's a page dealing with the prefixes "an-" and "ró".
Actually, it's mainly dealing with aspirating the nouns (lenition?), but each example of the prefix an- (very) shows hyphens; an-mhaith (very good), an-fhada (very long), and an-deas (very nice).
But the prefix ró shows róshearbh (too bitter), róthe (too hot), and ró-neata (too neat).
So it doesn't seem like the lenition has much to do with the hyphenating, which leaves me wondering how you know when to hyphenate?
GRMA, y'all -
Evie |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1589
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 02:58 pm: |
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After ró, you only use the hyphen if the word begins on a vowel. Too neat is "rónéata", without an hyphen. But you write "ró-olc", for example.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm
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| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 05:44 am: |
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Bíonn buanfhleiscín ar lorg 'an' sa chiall 'iontach'. |
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Evie
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Username: Evie
Post Number: 30
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:06 am: |
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A Unregistered Guest a chara,
I am having difficulties finding some of the words in my dictionaries. I figured it's because they are forms of root words, but I haven't learned enough to recognize them. Perhaps it would help me if you put the identifying form in parentheses? I would enjoy being able to translate your response!
GRMA
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1591
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:10 am: |
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He said "There is always a hyphen after "an" when it means "very" or "great".
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm
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