Ceistean: TYG

[poor_mouse]

Seo ceist eile agam:
"dà dheug" -- here's lenition after "dà";
"dà uair dheug" -- here's lenition after "dà" and another word. How it works? How far does lenition reach?

[akerbeltz]

Dà causes single lenition, not jumping lenition. It's the feminine uair that causes the lenition here (see 2. in the second section on Numerals or How to write a cheque in Gaelic)

[poor_mouse]

Och, an dàrna ceist.
In TYG I found this: "Cha d' fhiach e" (It's not worth).
Here: http://taic.me.uk/pdf/Lesson50.PDF, they explain that "Is/Cha d' fhiach dhomh/dhut..." is a colloquial form of "Is/Cha fhiach dhomh/dhut..."
Ach carson? What does this d' mean?

[poor_mouse]

Dà causes single lenition, not jumping lenition. It's the feminine uair that causes the lenition here (see 2. in the second section on Numerals or How to write a cheque in Gaelic)

Mòran taing!
I ought to know this!

UPD: I've read about Numerals and they are more complicated than I thought.
Mòran taing a-rithist -- bith sin glè fheumail!

[akerbeltz]

Cha d' fhiach e

That's an odd one. Usually that's cha b' fhiach e i.e. "it would not be worthy". A typo perhaps?

Addendum:
Found it. It's a Skye-ism where after a particle ending in -n a phantom d' appears so instead of cha(n) fhiach > cha d' fhiach, nan èigheach > nan d' èigheach.

[poor_mouse]

Och...

TYG gives such an expression in a dialogue without any comments at all (Aonad 15).

Tapadh leibh!

[poor_mouse]

TYPG, Aonad 22, Còmhradh:

Càit' an d' rachamaid?

-- 'S e " d' " a tha ann a-rithist!

In "Gràmar" section there is nothing about this mysterious "d"; moreover, there is "Cha b' fhiach dhuinn a dhol..." in dialogue and "b' fhiach" is discussed in "Gràmar" section without any " 'd " cuideachd.

It's very strange indeed...

[akerbeltz]

It's a dialect thing. The dependent form of rach often show up with a d: cha d' rach, cha d' rachamaid. Normally you get cha(n) + rach but some have gone further along the line of making rach like a regular verb and added the dependency particle, cf:

cha do rinneadh ~ cha chluinneadh
cha do rachamaid ~ cha rachamaid

[poor_mouse]

Tha mi duilich, chan eil mi a' tuigsinn: "cha do rinneadh" -- it's passive voice, isn't it?
Chan eil mi air ionnsachadh fhathast mu dheidhinn sin.

[akerbeltz]

Chan eil sin gu diofar. 'S e an rud cudromach dhut-sa gu bheil càit an d' rachamaid agus càit an rachamaid co-ionnann. Mholainn-sa gun cleachd thu càit' an rachamaid agus fàg an cruth eile do luchd-bruidhinn nan dual-chainntean

[poor_mouse]

Mòran taing! Tha Am Faclair Beag a' cuideachadh mi mòran, agus tha mi gad thuigsinn troimhe

[akerbeltz]

'S e do bheatha!

a' cuideachadh mi

>> 'gam chuideachadh

As a rule of thumb, never follow a verbal noun with a pronoun.

Eadar dà sgeul, thòisich sinn air faidhlichean fuaime a chur ris an Fhaclair Bheag cuideachd a-nis, mar a bha dùil a-riamh

[poor_mouse]

never follow a verbal noun with a pronoun

Tha sin riaghailt mhath!
Tha Am Faclair Beag gam cuideachadh mòran.

Eadar dà sgeul, thòisich sinn air faidhlichean fuaime a chur ris an Fhaclair Bheag cuideachd a-nis, mar a bha dùil a-riamh

Math fhèin!
Chunnaic mi iad, tha mi a' smaoineachadh, get a bha sin anns an oifis agam, where I cannot hear anything with my computer...

[poor_mouse]

chì sinn, mar a thuirt an dall!
we shall see, we'll see!

Tha mi a' smaoineachadh nach eil sin ceart, a bheil? In Russian it would be "?????????, ?????? ??????".

[poor_mouse]

Chan eil an ceist seo mu dheuidhinn TYG.

How to pronounce "Ghruinneard" (eilean no tràigh): is there "sh" in "ard" or not?
Cha chreid mi nach bi dà fhacal a tha ann an "Gruinneard", a bheil sin ceart? Bidh sin "rshd" ma tha.