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Dmd
Member Username: Dmd
Post Number: 23 Registered: 09-2009
| Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 01:16 pm: |
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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
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9284 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 02:15 pm: |
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I'm not aware of any - there would be an awful lot of them. |
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Hugo
Member Username: Hugo
Post Number: 33 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Monday, November 30, 2009 - 04:49 pm: |
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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
Member Username: An_chilleasrach
Post Number: 166 Registered: 01-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 05:17 am: |
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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
Member Username: Dmd
Post Number: 24 Registered: 09-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 08:42 am: |
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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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