There is tolgaim in the dictionary, but this is listed in Dinneen's as specifically a Connaught term. I want to send an email to someone and explain what's wrong with me (gaistreintríteas). Would I say "do ghabhas"?

Almost certainly not.

Tháinig x orm, perhaps.

or Bhuail taom X mé

Thank you!

Ó Dónaill has "(Of affliction) Ghabh tinneas, fiabhras me, I took sick, a fever . . . Ní ghabhann eitinn iad, they are immune to tuberculosis"

You could say "tá gaistreintríteas tógtha agam/tagtha orm".

As for "do ghabhas/ghaibheas", in Corca Dhuibhne at least the particle do is mostly used to stress the positive aspect of the statement in telling stories or affirming the facts of a situation or in offering excuses/apologies, etc. See Ó Sé: 594.

Dinneen: gabhaim ". . . I happen to, attack, seize (as an accident, illness, a passion, an emotion)".

You could also say "táim breoite ag gaistreintríteas".

Gaistreintriteas... Ná habair liom gur ól tú an t-uisce.

D'ólas an t-uisce agus rudaí eile sa tSín - ach cuireann sé ionadh orm an fhaid sin de luíochán atá orm...

Fuair mé tinneas boilg sa tSín.
Tháinig tinneas boilg orm.
Tá tinneas boilg orm.



Ailín said-
You could say "tá gaistreintríteas tógtha agam/tagtha orm".
For me "tógtha" means you caught it from somebody.



David -If you are still sick you might have that Amoeba thingy. Which won't go away without treatment.

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For me "tógtha" means you caught it from somebody.

He may well have contracted it from someone/something else but good point nevertheless. "Tá gaistreintríteas (tagtha) orm", so.

I've been to the doctor once. If it doesn't go away, I'll have to go again, but thanks for the clue, Bríd.