Irish Class, March 17, 2008
Irish Class, March 17, 2008
The first event was an exercise in sentence structure. We were given several Irish sentences and were asked to pick out key grammatical elements
without actually translating them. We were looking for verbs, subjects,
objects, prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, and
genitives.
| admhaigh | admit |
| admhaím | I admit |
| rómhaith | very good |
| dream | group (of people) |
| measa | worse. Comp. of olc— bad, evil |
| casadh | twist, turn, reproach |
| riamh | ever, never |
| taobh | side, flank |
| dúchas | heritage, patrimony, native place |
| faoi láthair | at present |
| grinn | perceptive, accurate |
| arb | was (past of copula before a vowel |
| páirteach | participating, sharing, sympathetic |
| sraith | swath, course, layer, series, row, rate |
| ráchairt | run f2 |
| saighdiúir | soldier |
| cogadh domhanda | world war |
| troid | fight, quarrel f3 |
| arm | army. Also weapon, arm |
| sraidbhaile | village |
| bocht | poor person m1 |
| lár | middle, center. Also floor, ground |
Next came question and answer. Nick asked various general knowledge questions in Irish and we answered. This to see how well we could follow spoken Irish.
| fíor | true |
| bréagach | false |
| taisteal | travel (m1) |
| seanathair | grandfather |
| garmhac | grandson |
| seanmháthair | grandmother |
| gariníon | granddaughter |
| solas | light |
| fuaim | sound |
| cáiliúil | famous |
| túr | tower (m1) |
| ainmhí | animal (m4) |
| asal | donkey (m1) |
| balla | wall (m4) |
Cardinal directions
| North | South | East | West | |
| tuaisceart | deisceart | oirthear | iarthar | |
| root | tuai-/duai- | deis-/deas- | -oir- | -iar- |
| static | thuaidh | theas | thoir pron. “HAIR” | thiar pron. “HERE” |
| motion to | ó thuaidh | ó dheas | sair | siar |
| motion from | aduaidh | aneas pron. “UH-NASS” | anoir pron. “AHN-AIR” | aniar |
Notes
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ó in ó thuaidh, ó dheas means “to”,
even though the preposition ó is usually “from” -
The root of south, deis-/deas- is the same as deis “right”.
deasach/deisealach “right-handed”. cle “left”, but
ciotach , “left-handed”,
as in Col Ciotach,
also means “clumsy”!
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We then read more from scene three of
Gaeileoirí.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 