AN GAODHAL
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
bh and mh sound like w, when follow¬
ed or preceded by a o u, and like v, if
preceded or followed by e and i; dh and
gh, like y; sh and th like h; ch like ch; ph
like f; fh 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.
bhlas, 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
lámh agus an chos, 3. tá an bhos chlé tinn,
agus an bhos dheas (right) slán. 4. tá
an tír bán agus an tonn árd. 5. tá an
cló dubh, 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 Gaodhal.
aimhdheonta, unjustly, unlawfully.
buaraibh, animals of the cow kind.
bundúsacha, originators
caocaidhís, a fortnight, two weeks.
ceathar air ceathracha, forty four.
cadsamhlachd, representative.
cómchorp, a corporation.
cómhrac, contention, strife.
dlúthcheangal, league.
fhir-chaidh, voc. case of editor.
gradam, a character. gairm, to call.
iarsma, burden; relic; new year's gift,
inneall, service; a tool; dress; order.
inntliseach, sagacious; sincere.
pór, kindred, race.
raidh, the will; elbow; roving.
ré, time, epoch.
sileádhacas, ostentation; romance.
sabhluigh, to undertake, to propose.
tionsgnadh, preparing, commencing.
tighearnach, applied to landlordism.
tairgsiona, proposition.
togha election.
suadh, 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 'suadh' in the gen-
itive plural. We prefer the adoption of
the regular form, Saoitheadh.
