Fòram na Gàidhlig

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. historical) pronunciation) Well, this part doesn’t seem to be true – OIr. form was /kod´e, kad´e/ with slender s...

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 effect from a common form which somehow de-lenited the ð > d. Another mystery solved! :...

And the biggest challenge, the “44 standard phonemes for English” are only standard for English. Gaelic has completely different phoneme inventory, it’s impossible just to map Gaelic phonemes into English and keep authentic Gaelic pronunciation (but I guess it depends on what you mean by “reasonably...

I suspect it's the back and roundness of the á that slipped into an ó. I mean, when I hear modern Irish á /ɑː/ it never sounds like an /ɑː/ to me but always like an /ɔ:/ sound. It's not a huge leap. Hmm, you might be right. (West-South) Irish /ɑː/ is generally supposed to not be rounded (and it’s n...

The pages do look better now. :) if a word had an initial kʷ and if there was a second kʷ in the word somewhere, the p didn't disappear but became Though I think you meant initial p, and then kʷ following later. ;-) Ok, you make valid points but I'm a little unsure about how to fix it - in the main ...

I don’t know how/where I could leave some feedback on historical info on Akerbeltz wiki, so decided to start a thread here. First: huge thanks to the author as the whole wiki is a really great resource for information about Gaelic! And I especially like that it often does give some historical backgr...

Another way to think about it is that in Old and Middle Irish the relative in which was just expressed by eclipsing i ( i + eclipsing relative particle (s)a in Old Irish produced just i ) and later languages replaced it by ina in Irish and anns a(n) in Gaelic. So during their history, rather than ‘l...

Or the Irish Language Forum (which I think is a bit more active these days, but you’ll see some of the same people on both): https://www.irishlanguageforum.com/

So I tried Corpas na Gàidhlig DASG where I can find 302 instances of anns am bi and none of anns a bhios. That's because it's usually contracted to sa bhios/sa bhitheas :priob: I can’t find any example of that in the Corpas either. There is a lot of sa bhios (and a few sa bhitheas ) there, but almo...

Weird. If I google "anns a bhios" from my regular browser I get only 23 results. If I do that in a private window, I suddenly get the 293 000 figure too (but still only 2–3 pages of results). For "anns am bi" I get ~40 000 in both cases (and dozens of pages). Seems Google does so...

Sorry for reviving the topic – it’s been recently linked in a Duolingo discussion about dependent/independent forms and that brought me here. An example from one of the first replies caught my attention, I think it might be a mistake, but I’d like to make sure I understand things correctly. Tha mi a...