Caibidil a dó

“Daid ramhar”

ceadaithe	approved	v
a luaithe	as soon	v
maidir le cosc	in relation to prohibition	v
i bhfeidhm	in force	v
boise	palm	n
d’airigh	felt	v
i ngreim inti	in her grip	prep
i mbaclainn	in barriers	n
ba mhó	most	v
a cholainn	his body	n
fonn ort a meáchan a chailleadh	desire weight to lose	v
ar mhaithe le faoiseamh a fháil	for the purpose of getting relief	v
tuiscint	understanding	v
dar leis siúd	according to those	conj
ré	era	n
ná gurbh eisean	nor was he	v
imeartha	playing	v
thar	over	prep
a thugadh	was given	v
síob dó	ride (was given) to him	prep
le sruth	downstream	n
dúr	stupid	n
go géar	sharply	adv
go gearr	shortly	adv
go gairid	shortly	adv
go himpíoch	persuasively	adv
ag casachtach	coughing	v
ag sraothartach	sneezing	v
sraoth	series	n
go n-iompódh	that would turn	v
thathail	happened	n
amhail is go	as if	conj
bolgam	stomach	n
údar náire	disgraceful	n
ag teastáil go gear	urgently needed	v
fág seo	leave this	conj
bíodh foighne	have patience	v
go stadach	steadily	adv
a shroich	which arrived	v
ní hamháin	not only	n
ar fónamh	serving	v
imeartha	playing	v
náirithe	humiliated	v
báire	goal keeper	n
ciasúr	scissors	n
de thimpiste	by accident	prep
impím ort fanacht	i beg you to stay	vp
go dtarlóidh	that will happen	v
mo náire thú	(my) shame on you	np
ar mhuin na muice	on the pig’s back	np
tríd chuige	through to him	prep

Quizlet:

And now by type of word

dúr	stupid	n
sraoth	series	n
thathail	happened	n
bolgam	stomach	n
údar náire	disgraceful	n
ní hamháin	not only	n
báire	goal keeper	n
ciarsúr	handkerchief, tissue	n
mo náire thú	(my) shame on you	np
ar mhuin na muice	on the pig’s back	np
i ngreim inti	in her grip	prep
thar	over	prep
síob dó	ride (was given) to him	prep
de thimpiste	by accident	prep
tríd chuige	through to him	prep
ceadaithe	approved	v
a luaithe	as soon	v
maidir le cosc	in relation to prohibition	v
i bhfeidhm	in force	v
d’airigh	felt	v
ba mhó	most	v
fonn ort a meáchan a chailleadh	desire weight to lose	v
ar mhaithe le faoiseamh a fháil	for the purpose of getting relief	v
tuiscint	understanding	v
ná gurbh eisean	nor was he	v
imeartha	playing	v
a thugadh	was given	v
ag casachtach	coughing	v
ag sraothartach	sneezing	v
go n-iompódh	that would turn	v
ag teastáil go gear	urgently needed	v
bíodh foighne	have patience	v
a shroich	which arrived	v
ar fónamh	serving	v
imeartha	playing	v
náirithe	humiliated	v
go dtarlóidh	that will happen	v
impím ort fanacht	i beg you to stay	vp

Now why in the world am I making these depressingly long catagorizations? Well, it is helpful to see where you are weak–wow, for me that looks like verbs. I kind of know that the verb tarlaigh = happen but clearly not well. I know that go = that, I know how to conjugate the future tense, but putting it all together, nope. I get lost and forget that we are really just dealing with tarlaigh.

It is also helpful to see how Irish deals with things differently than English. Playing, serving, sneezing. They are all -ing words. In my little (non-English major, non-grammar knowing) head they all go in the same bucket– “-ing”. The doing of something. Clearly soemthing else is happening in Irish.

Playing = imeartha, ar fónamh = serving and sneezing = ag sraothartach

Serving = ar fónamh

Sneezing = ag sraothartach

imeartha comes from imir and it can mean ‘tricky’ ‘practised’ or ‘clever’, but in certain phrases it also just means ‘playing’, or variations of the concept of playing.

Ar is a preposition that means ‘on’ fónamh is a verbal noun of fóin. It means service or benefit. To be ” on service’ kind of means serving. This is where you remember that languages are tools of expression, not puzzle pieces that can be swapped. As a true monolingual I know that, but not really becuase part of me is always trying to map Irish onto English as I learn. I presume that if (when 🙂 I actually become fluent I will inderstand this in a deeper way. You can fall down some really fun rabbit-holes about all of this. Check out the neuroscience of language mapping or look at Noam Chomsky vs XX thoughts on language and what it really means.

Ag sraothartach is fun. It looks more like a ‘typical’ Irish-Engling ‘ing translation. -ing words are often translated as ag (at) + verb. But wait, sraoth? Sraoth is a sneeze, but it is also flow. Sraoth also looks like sraith, which is series, and don’t sneees tend to feel like a flow and come in a seiries?