AN GAOḊAL.
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LESSONS IN GAELIC.
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
XV. LESSON. — Continued
Translation of Exercise 1.
1. tá an lá breáġ. 2. Bíḋeann an
ṁí so breáġ 3. tá mo ṁac óg 4. ḃ-
fuil mo ṁac óg? 5. ní ḃ-fuil sé óg.
6. bíḋeann sé maiṫ. 7. ní ḃíḋeann sé
suas moċ. 8 ḃ-fuil gaċ fear maiṫ
9. ní ḃ-fuil gaċ cat liaṫ no duḃ. 10.
tá Dia maiṫ. 11. cia ṡé Dia? 12. cia
an niḋ neaṁ? 13. tá soġ air neaṁ.
14. ḃ-fuil an t-áḋ ort? 15. ní ḃ-fuil
an t-áḋ orm. 16. ḃ-fuil gráḋ agad
orm? 17. ní ḃ-fuil gráḋ agam ort
18. tá gráḋ agam air Ḋia, agus tá
gráḋ aig Dia orm. 19. tá gráḋ aig
Dia air gaċ duine. 20. Is riġ Dia air
neaṁ agus air talaṁ. 21. tá an gort
buiḋe agus bán. 22. tá an oiġ óg ag¬
us maoṫ. 23. biḋeann áḋ air an ṁuin¬
tir maiṫ. 24 ḃ-fuilir maiṫ 'nuair a
tá an t-áḋ ort? 25. níor raiḃ an t-
áḋ orm a riaṁ, agus fós, is dóiġ liom
go ḃ fuilim maiṫ. 26. ḃ-fuil an ġrian
lonraċ? 27. tá an ġrian lonraċ. 28.
ḃ-fuil agad arán geal? 29. tá, mo
ṡáiṫ; agus bainne. 30. ḃ-fuil do ṡáiṫ
de gaċ niḋ agad? 31. tá. 32. tá tú
ċo fial le flaiṫ.
LESSON XVI.
Exercice 1.
Translate —
1. Is bread cheap or dear? 2. It is cheap. 3.
Is butter dear? 4. Yes, it is dear this month. 5.
Wine is dear, meat is usually dear, and water is u¬
sually cheap. 6. The virgin is handsome (aluin).
7. The haughty is found under beauty's dress
(faoi sgeimh). 8 You are not wont to be early at
the house. 9. They are usually at an early hour at
the house. 10. Are you early from home? 11. You
are in happiness. 12. They are usually happy. 13.
The moon is bright, the cloud is grey ; the day is
dark, the month is beautiful. 14. When I am well
(slan) I am happy. 15. When do you be well? 16
The physician does have a secret. 17. The wheel,
is red. 18. The eye is grey. 19. The cat is black
20. What hour is it? (cia an uair i). 21. It is ear¬
ly yet (fos). 22. The day is long. 23. Many a
day we shall be in the tomb (is iomdha an la 'san
g-cill orrainn). 24. Man’s life is short. 25. It is
like the flower of the field; it is like a vapour (ceo);
it is a warfare, as Job says (mar deir Iob). 26. If
you wish (ma is maith leat) to live old, take hot and
cold, is an old saying (sean radh).
OBS. 1. — The first letter of a word
if it be one of the nine mutables, suf¬
fers aspiration after the possessive pro¬
uouns singular, mo, my; do, thy; a,
his.
Example.
Pronounced
bean, a woman, mo ḃean, my
woman.
mo van.
bárd, bard, do ḃárd, thy bard, do ward.
bord, table, a ḃord, his table, a vordh.
b in the words bean, bárd, bord, when
not preceded by the possessive pronoun
singular, is not aspirated ; put the pos¬
sessive pronouns singular before the
same words, and then b assumes the
aspirate sound, and is, of course, pron¬
ounced like v, if e or i follow; and like
w, if a, or o, or u follow.
a, her, the possessive pronoun sing¬
ular, is an exception : it does not cause
aspiration, and it is in this non-aspirat¬
ing power only that it can be disting¬
uished from a, his ; as, a bord, her ta¬
ble; a ḃord, his table.
OBS. 2. — The vocative case, or as it
is called by English grammarians, the
nominative case of address, has the
first letter, if aspirable, invariably as¬
pirated.
Example.
cuisle, pulse; croiḋe, heart.
a ċuisle, O pulse; a ċuisle mo ċroiḋe,
pulse of my heart.
Dia, God; dílis, dear (from díl, fond)
a Ḋé, Oh, God; O a Ḋé ḋílis, O! dear
God.
gráḋ, love.
a ġráḋ, oh Love; ġráḋ m'anama, love
of my soul:
a ṡearc ġráḋ, o, love of loves.
