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déiridh (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 10:40 pm: |   
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tá an focal seo i 'the tailor and ansty' it's obviously an attempt to anglisize an irish phrase. any ideas what the original phrase would be? it's used as an independent ejaculation, and only once in the book. if you'd like the context, féach thíos.... http://books.google.com/books?id=3W-LkAVOYHMC&pg=PA505&lpg=PA505&dq=thamwirrashi mfaina&source=web&ots=6t4wvZEc9P&sig=JDuUwA0w2yYPyesHLk3tmonGDhI grma |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2047
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 10:48 pm: |
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I’d say it begins with "Tá Muire..."
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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CaitrionaW (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 12:11 pm: |
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B'fhéidir...
'S a Mhuire, sin foighne!
má tá 's' cosúil leis an 'th' i mBéarla? |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2051
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 04:14 pm: |
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Mh is not pronounced m, and n is not pronounced m, I think. It would be too far from what is pronounced (even badly pronounced), I suppose.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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CaitríonaW (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 03:07 am: |
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Well, there's no 'th' like the interdental English 'th' in Irish. If the m meant 'mo', then you'd say 'aina' not 'faina.'
Aon tuairimí agat fhéin, Lughaidh? |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2057
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 12:34 pm: |
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Níl barúil agam ach ar scríobh mé thuas. Deacair an abairt sin a thuigbheáil...
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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déiridh (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 09:07 pm: |
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grma |
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Seanfhear
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Username: Seanfhear
Post Number: 36
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 08:27 am: |
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I'm sure I can put my hand on an Irish language version of 'The Tailor and Anstey', which if I'm not mistaken was first written in English? The Irish version may have the original of that phrase, if someone could tell me what page or even chapter to search pls?
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