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Jaicmac
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Username: Jaicmac
Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 11:34 am: |   
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How do "srón" and "gaosán" differ?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2731
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 12:12 pm: |
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Gaosán or gaothsán is mainly an Ulster word. Srón is Connachta and Munster. That's the only difference.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Student
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Username: Student
Post Number: 85
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 01:22 pm: |
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Gaothsán = gaoth (wind) + sán, nach ea? If so, what does "sán" stand for?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2732
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 10:42 am: |
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I don't think it's a compound with the word gaoth + the word sán. I mean, I don't think the element -sán can stay on its own.
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Student
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Username: Student
Post Number: 86
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 05:31 pm: |
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But I do smell that something is afoot between "nose" and "wind."
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2733
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 - 05:54 pm: |
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Maybe. However in Dinneen http://glg.csisdmz.ul.ie/fgb/iomhanna/index.php?find_simple=English they wrote gaosán, without the th. Maybe this th has been added by people who thought there were a link with "gaoth" while there isn't...
Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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