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- Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: cèist sèimhachaidh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85880
Re: cèist sèimhachaidh
daoine doesn't count as slenderising plural, 's e iolra neo-riaghailteach a th' ann
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: Ceòl, Leabhraichean is na h-Ealain / Music, Books and the Arts
- Topic: Ag obair air lèine ùr
- Replies: 1
- Views: 77951
Ag obair air lèine ùr
Tha Polcan-faing ag obair air lèine ùr, agus leis gu bheil e fliuch fliuch an-diugh, seo dhuibh an Dàmhair
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:24 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 129556
Re: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
dè < gu dè < ciod e I was taught at uni, MacBain also has it in his etymological dictionary. It may well be as you suggested, that there was an intermediate stage with depalatalization between cote and ciod e before it went back to being palatal in some areas with dè.
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:10 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 129556
Re: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
Ah brilliant, that makes a lot of sense. I've tweaked the dé section, it now says: dé "what?". Now the emphatic "fuller" form of this is gu dé and this itself is a re-interpreted form of ciod e (which is why Lewis dè with broad /d/ is actually the more conservative (i.e. historic...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:33 pm
- Forum: Bathar-bog sa Ghàidhlig / Gaelic language software
- Topic: Help with vocal digital synthesis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 91500
Re: Help with vocal digital synthesis
I'm also somewhat dubious as to what the point is. Of course with STT and TSS there are issues of accessibility i.e. they're useful to Gaelic speakers who are blind/deaf/dyslexic etc. But I fail to see how vocal synthesis would aid Gaelic speakers? If successful, wouldn't that mean that we lose yet ...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 11:22 am
- Forum: Bathar-bog sa Ghàidhlig / Gaelic language software
- Topic: Help with vocal digital synthesis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 91500
Re: Help with vocal digital synthesis
Hi Andrew. Just to check first, you do know there is a pretty good Gaelic voice?
- Wed Nov 10, 2021 2:06 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 129556
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 2:04 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 129556
Re: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
Though I think you meant initial p, and then kʷ following later. ;-) :mhoire: fixed But it should regularly be *ciodh – I have no idea why the original /ð/ got delenited here. Ciodh does appear as an obsolete form in some Gaelic dictionaries. But anyway, I agree there was probably some knock-on eff...
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:36 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 129556
Re: Akerbeltz wiki: feedback on some historical details in a few articles
Thanks for the detailed feedback! Hope my criticism isn’t too harsh Heaven's no, you're become very nice about it and in the main, I concur with all points. A lot of that site, especially the older articles, are based on my notes from uni and that's a while back AND of course students don't always c...
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:24 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: fill in the blanks #1
- Replies: 3
- Views: 69934
Re: fill in the blanks #1
Terrible spelling for boin/buin
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 10:24 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: a' rocking and a' rolling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 73016
Re: a' rocking and a' rolling
Watch the spelling to begin with :priob: a' riuth 's a leam > a' ruith 's a' leum a' siobadh 's a' suathadh > a' sìobadh a' riuth 's riagail > a' ruith Second, they're not verbs, they're (verbal) nouns, they have grammatical gender and everything. Lastly, they're not such a big thing, apart from a' ...
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: No you better don't
- Replies: 12
- Views: 139385
Re: No you better don't
There's also chan fhuilear dhut sin a dhèanamh "you had better not do that" but beware, the word fuilear is a Gaelic rabbit hole
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Why is it "Càit' a bheil" and not "Càit' a tha"?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 109161
Re: Why is it "Càit' a bheil" and not "Càit' a tha"?
I had to ask myself, all hail Prof Rob Ó Maolalaigh. The solution is this: càite is actually three words fused together, the Middle Irish (Old Irish used something else, it used cía airm / c'airm + a relative clause) pattern was based on the declarative áit i raibhe sé "the place in which it wa...
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: A’ Bhearradh Dhearg
- Replies: 4
- Views: 81381
Re: A’ Bhearradh Dhearg
Well, right next to it I see "Carn Derg" so in all probability, it would be "A' Chreag Dhearg"
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:16 pm
- Forum: Gràmar, Fuaimean is Gnàths / Grammar, Sounds and Expressions
- Topic: Cat (Cait?) sìth pronunciation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 120083
Re: Cat (Cait?) sìth pronunciation
I would go with biorra-crùidein. Kingfishers just don't occur across the Gaelic speaking areas left today if you look at their distribution map