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  2. English loanwords in Irish - Wikipedia

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    The native term for these is béarlachas (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲeːɾˠl̪ˠəxəsˠ]), from Béarla, the Irish word for the English language. It is a result of language contact and bilingualism within a society where there is a dominant, superstrate language (in this case, English) and a minority substrate language with few or no ...

  3. List of English words of Irish origin - Wikipedia

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    clabber, clauber (from clábar) wet clay or mud; curdled milk. clock O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries.

  4. List of Irish words used in the English language - Wikipedia

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    phoney – (probably from the English fawney meaning "gilt brass ring used by swindlers", which is from Irish fáinne meaning "ring") fake. pinkeen – From pincín, a minnow or an insignificant person. This in turn comes from English pink + Irish diminutive –ín. pollan – A fish found in Irish loughs, from Irish pollán.

  5. List of Irish-language given names - Wikipedia

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    Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g. Irish Máire (anglicised Maura), Máirín (Máire + - ín "a diminutive suffix"; anglicised Maureen) and English Mary all derive from French: Marie, which ultimately derives ...

  6. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  7. Erin go bragh - Wikipedia

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    Erin go Bragh is an anglicisation of the phrase Éirinn go Brách in the Irish language. [2] The standard version in Irish is Éire go Brách, which is pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə ɡə ˈbˠɾˠaːx]. Some uses of the phrase will use Éirinn, which survives as the dative form in the modern standard form of Irish and is the source of the poetic form ...

  8. Hiberno-English - Wikipedia

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    Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...

  9. Place names in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The Irish is a translation of the Old Norse. The English is an Anglicisation of the Old Norse. Oxmantown--Baile Lochlannach: Scandinavian homestead. Saltee: Salt-ey: salt island: Na Sailtí: The Irish is a Gaelicisation of the Old Norse. The English is an Anglicisation of the Old Norse. Selskar: Selr-skar: seal skerry: Seilsceir: Smerwick ...