Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The word is an abstract noun derived from the Old Irish adjective slán "whole, healthy" plus the Old Irish suffix tu, resulting in slántu "health" and eventually Middle Irish sláinte. [11] [12] The root slán is derived from the Indo-European root *slā-"advantageous" and linked to words like German selig "blessed" and the Latin salus ...
Fáinne (Irish: [ˈfˠaːn̠ʲə]; pl. Fáinní but often Fáinnes in English) is the name of a pin badge worn to show fluency in, or a willingness to speak, the Irish language. The three modern versions of the pin as relaunched in 2014 by Conradh na Gaeilge are the Fáinne Óir (gold circle), Seanfháinne (old fáinne/circle) and Fáinne ...
The Irish are famous for their wit and way with words — just look at the plethora of St. Patrick's Day q uotes, puns, and songs associated with March 17.. Some of the most famous Irish sayings ...
This is for words and phrases in the Irish language. It is not for Hiberno-English words or phrases (except where those originate from the Irish language). Subcategories
140 best Irish blessings for St. Patrick's Day. It's normal to hear various "season's greetings" around the holidays, and different types of "best wishes" and congratulatory statements when ...
The Royal Irish Academy also republished their comprehensive dictionary of early Irish online as the eDIL [27] and work is ongoing on a comprehensive historical dictionary of Irish covering the period 1600-2000. [28] Those great lexicographers who practiced lexicography in Irish were for the most part learned men who had a particular love for ...
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)
a cirque or mountain lake, of glacial origin. (OED) Irish or Scots Gaelic coire 'Cauldron, hollow' craic 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.