Fòram na Gàidhlig

Thank you both for your help. Can I ask a grammar question or two? I'm very, very, very rusty with what little I know, so I apologize if this is very basic. Why is there the "na + lenition" [the added "i" in ùr] here? Is it a case marker of some sort? Also, a Sheonaidh, I was thi...

I'm trying to work out how to ask "do you have any New Year's resolutions" in Gaelic, but am getting stuck part way. "A bheil [???] agaibh air a Bliadhna ùr?" I apologize for being a rank beginner (and rusty at that), so there's probably other errors, but my main problem is with ...

And I just placed my Amazon order yesterday, darn. I'll probably have to get at least one of those books, too, at some point. :) Also, thanks for answering a stray question of mine as well. I've wondered if the unromanticized view of Jacobitism was considered revisionist, or if it wasn't fully a &qu...

Neil: Tracking regiments, as I'm sure you know, is a major pain in the tail, since they got renamed every time a new commander took over. Have you managed to find much on military organization in general? I've found a precious little on organization in Cumberland's army, but most books around this t...

Tapadh leibh a Neil! To answer your question, tha mi a' fuireach sa Canada (I'm not sure about "sa"--I gather it's an abbreviation of "anns an", but don't know if it can always be used that way or if there are parameters). I'm glad to know that the documents still exist at least....

I'm mostly speaking from experience on other texts about the period--they'll sell you a bill of goods like "oh, it was just the Clan Chiefs who supported the James. The underlings had to go along because of clan loyalties" or "it was just a Catholic vs Protestant conflict" or &qu...

An Gobaire: Thank you for the link. It should be an interesting challenge to read, as my Gaelic is pretty rudimentary and I'm not familiar with the old spelling. Still, I'm surprised at how much of the first paragraph I can understand unassisted. Thrissel: I suspected the same. In my experience, any...

Duh. Just realized that's a PDF you linked to a very old book. I misread the original publication date as 1995 for some reason. Anyway, downloaded. I'll be reading it at work, most likely.

I'll definitely be buying that book, thank you. I'm well aware of the bias in the area (it's borderline comical how extreme it is at times) as I've been researching the period for around two years already, mostly via books ordered online that I discovered by diligent Google searching of various keyw...

That's the Jacobite War to any who are running to their dictionaries. First off, I'm sorry if this is somehow in bad form or taste. I'm really not sure how this area is seen these days or how the forum moderators would take a topic that is still rather political today. It's not my intent to start a ...

I don't know if it's true for children, but I know that when I took Russian, we were NOT to make any written representation of the language (a couple of linguists got yelled at for being fancy about it) until we'd had a handle on the sounds of the language. The idea was that seeing the written form ...

akerbeltz, I totally understand what you're saying--I've taken whole courses on terminology and dictionary building. What I find interesting about the tinker example is that the tr*nsl*tion doesn't actually give an idiomatic English equivalent. Generally and with the examples you gave above, an equi...

akerbeltz: Is it your dictionary? If so, I love finding these random things in it. (I'm a tr*nsl*t*r and total language nerd, so dictionaries are exciting.) Another pairing is more a tr*nsl*tion question. Cho breugach ri ceàrd is given as "As mendacious as the Devil" when that's clearly no...

Thank you faoileag; that makes sense. I'd actually wondered if they were supposed to be paired, but it didn't occur to me that one could be a riposte to the other.

I was looking up some things today for a project of mine and got a bit carried away reading cross-references. I ended up coming across two phrases in Am Faclair Beag: faodaidh cat sealltainn air an rìgh agus faodaidh an rìgh na sùilean a chur ás a' chat Literal meanings are provided for both, so I k...