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Róman
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Username: Róman
Post Number: 1091
Registered: 03-2006
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Haigh,
whenever I watch Ros na Rún I hear people using word "geabhar" (?) in the meaning "favour". The dictionary gives "fabhar", but I am sure I hear [g-] or maybe [g`-] there. Does anyone know what is the word in Conamara?
Gaelainn na Mumhan abú!
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1948
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 02:42 pm: |
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I know the word "gar" with the meaning "favour"... It isn't pronounced like "geabhar", as far as I know, but maybe it's the same word...
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Róman
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Username: Róman
Post Number: 1092
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 02:48 pm: |
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medial -bh- is not pronounced in Munster, just lengthens the vowel, so maybe it is - just I hear it like [gA:r] and imagine it is "gábhar"?
Gaelainn na Mumhan abú!
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 6208
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 04:50 pm: |
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Bheinn sách cinnte gur "gar" atá i gceist.
gar [ainmfhocal firinscneach den chéad díochlaonadh]
cóngar, deiseacht (i ngar dom); seirbhís, áis, beart fónta (gar a dhéanamh do dhuine); maitheas (níl gar i gcaint).
fabhar [ainmfhocal firinscneach den chéad díochlaonadh]
gníomh cineáltais; áis, gar (do dhuine); dea-thoil, dea-mhéin (tá Dia i bhfabhar aige). |
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