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The Daltaí Boards » Archive: 2005- » 2009 (November-December) » Archive through December 05, 2009 » With a sínte fada « Previous Next »

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Dmd
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Post Number: 23
Registered: 09-2009
Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 01:16 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Is there a list anywhere of words that differ only with the addition of a sínte fada, if thats the correct term?
e.g. fear - féar; mala - mála; srl. Any help greatly appreciated.

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Aonghus
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Post Number: 9284
Registered: 08-2004


Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 02:15 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

I'm not aware of any - there would be an awful lot of them.

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Hugo
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Post Number: 33
Registered: 09-2008
Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 04:49 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Why not make your own list, Dmd? Just trawl through the dictionary. Maybe even get it published?! ('Síneadh fada' - 'síntí' is the plural.)

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An_chilleasrach
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Post Number: 166
Registered: 01-2009
Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 05:17 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Is minic a feictear comhainmeacha as bearla ach rith sé liom go níos annaimhe iad as Gaeilge. Seans nach bhfuil mo chuid Ghaeilge sach laidir chun iad a thabhairt faoi deara - aon tuairimí ar an abhar? (a dhaoine uaisle, mar a dearfadh Séamais!)

It appears to me that homonyms are less common in Irish than in English - might that be true?

(edited to add the mini-translation)

(Message edited by an_chilleasrach on December 01, 2009)

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Dmd
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Post Number: 24
Registered: 09-2009
Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 08:42 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Thanks everybody! I'll take Hugo's advice on board and start trawling my dictionary. What spurred me to ask the question in the first place was that I heard on the grapevine that a person in Waterford have collected them, but I haven't been able to track them down.

In the meantime I'm going to separately post some Interlexical Homograph's - Irish / English, that I hope may be of interest to people.



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