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hooligan – (from the Irish family name Ó hUallacháin, anglicised as Hooligan or Hoolihan). keening – From caoinim (meaning "I wail") to lament, to wail mournfully (OED). kern – An outlaw or a common soldier. From ceithearn or ceithearnach, still the word in Irish for a pawn in chess. Leprechaun – a fairy or spirit (from leipreachán)
fun, used in Ireland for fun/enjoyment. The word is actually English in origin; it entered into Irish from the English "crack" via Ulster Scots. The Gaelicised spelling craic was then reborrowed into English. The craic spelling, although preferred by many Irish people, has garnered some criticism as a faux-Irish word. [18] cross
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Other aspects of Irish morphology, while typical for an Insular Celtic language, are not typical for Indo-European, such as the presence of inflected prepositions and the initial consonant mutations. Irish syntax is also rather different from that of most Indo-European languages, due to its use of the verb–subject–object word order. [1]
Irish words and phrases (3 C, 42 P) Irish-language works (4 C) Pages in category "Irish language" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
The definite article has two forms in Irish: an and na. Their distribution depends on number, case, and gender, and they trigger mutation partly on the basis of the initial sound of the following word. Each entry of the table gives an example of one noun starting with a consonant and one with a vowel.
Each lesson contains new words, basic sentences for each of the new words, revisionary sentences, a second section of new material and a situational conversation. The book's lessons are intended to be used with recorded versions of the Irish words and sentences they contain. The current publications, unlike earlier ones, come with the recordings.