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Gnìomhair Làthail

Gnìomhair Làthail – Teann

Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:

teann

I seem to keep picking verbs that have a bunch of meanings and so I end up going on long journeys down rabbit holes of the Gaelic language.

Today I picked this verb because of a poem I found called Teann a-nall is Èisd na facail (“Come hither and listen to the words”) in the Bards of Morvern book at the Scottish Poetry Library. I think the author was Donald Mackinnon.

The reference to a-nall got me looking at the ways in which movement and direction are expressed in Gaelic which was also something that came up in discussion with my friends I was doing a Gaelic lesson with. This is why doing these daily verbs are helpful to me as they will inevitably cross over with many other parts of speech.

By DrewMcN

Drew McNaughton is a poet and musician with a passion for nature and languages.

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