AN GAOḊAL
VoL. 1. — No. 4. JANUARY, 1882. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
THE GAELIC ALPHABET.
Irish.
Roman.
Sound.
Irish.
Roman.
Sound.
a
a
aw
m
m
emm
b
b
bay
n
n
enn
c
c
kay
o
o
oh
d
d
dhay
p
p
pay
e
e
ay
r
r
arr
f
f
eff
s
s
ess
g
g
gay
t
t
thay
i
i
ee
u
u
oo
l
l
ell
ḃ and ṁ sound like w, when follow¬
ed or preceded by a o u, and like v, if
preceded or followed by e and i; ḋ and
ġ, like y; ṡ and ṫ like h; ċ like ch; ṗ
like f; ḟ is mute, and all the aspirated
letters at the end of words are nearly
silent.
FIFTH LESSON.
ADOPTED FROM BOURKE'S
Pronounced.
ball, member, bawl.
ḃlas, taste, blaw-iss.
bord, a table, burdh.
broc, badger, bruck.
bun, foundation, bottom, bun.
cat, cat, cath.
cill, church, graveyard, killh,
clann, children, clan, clawunh.
clé, left, left-handed, clay
cló, nail, type; defeat, clow.
clú, fame, renown, clew.
corn, a goblet, kurnh.
crom, hooked, bent, krum.
cúl, back, cool.
cú, hound, coo.
donn, brown, dhunn.
rus, wood ; science, russ.
srón, nose, shrown.
tá, am, is, are, art, (verb) thaw
tinn, sick, sore, unwell, thinn.
tír, country, thee-irh.
tor, tower, thurr.
tosd, silence, thusth.
tús, beginning, thoo-uss.
1. tá an ball tinn agus an t-at mór
agus bog. 2. an cat agus an broc, an
láṁ agus an ċos, 3. tá an ḃos ċlé tinn,
agus an ḃos ḋeas (right) slán. 4. tá
an tír bán agus an tonn árd. 5. tá an
cló duḃ, agus tá sé fada, 6. tá
an tonn gorm mór agus árd. 7. tá an
cat donn agus an broc glas. 8. tá an
mac óg, árd agus mór. 9. tá an lá
fada. 10. tá an tor árd agus mór,
11. tá an t-im úr, agus an bord fada.
Explanation of the words not in com-
mon use which appeared in the last
number of An Gaoḋal.
aiṁḋeonta, unjustly, unlawfully.
buaraiḃ, animals of the cow kind.
bundúsaċa, originators
caocaiḋís, a fortnight, two weeks.
ceaṫar air ceaṫraċa, forty four.
cadsaṁlaċd, representative.
cómċorp, a corporation.
cóṁrac, contention, strife.
dlúṫċeangal, league.
ḟir-ċaiḋ, voc. case of editor.
gradam, a character. gairm, to call.
iarsma, burden; relic; new year's gift,
inneall, service; a tool; dress; order.
inntliseaċ, sagacious; sincere.
pór, kindred, race.
raiḋ, the will; elbow; roving.
ré, time, epoch.
sileáḋacas, ostentation; romance.
saḃluiġ, to undertake, to propose.
tionsgnaḋ, preparing, commencing.
tiġearnaċ, applied to landlordism.
tairgsiona, proposition.
toġa election.
suaḋ, genitive plural of saoi.
NOTE — The learner will notice many
changes in the spelling of word; this
is caused by Delension aud Conjuga-
tion, or, in other words, by Government;
for instance, the word, Saoi (Mr.), has
been, by some, made 'suaḋ' in the gen-
itive plural. We prefer the adoption of
the regular form, Saoiṫeaḋ.
