Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
Another word for “teach” I wasn’t aware of before but it’s main use is as “dictate”.
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Bruadair
Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
I had some pretty weird dreams last night which made me think this would be a good verb for today.
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Cluich
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Today I’m going up to London for a gig! The tickets to see Roxanne de Bastion were a birthday present from my sister and her husband, so Happy Birthday to Me! And thank you!
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Ionnsaich
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Well I’ve been learning a lot recently. So this one seemed apt for today. Enjoy your Friday everyone!
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Innis
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Drùis
Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
Just to prove that Gaelic covers the whole gamut of human existence I include this verb today.
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Itealaich
Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
Finally a rather straightforward one. I saw a Red Kite flying overhead this morning so I thought I would go for the verb for flying.
Funnily enough there is a closely related verb which is for “fly-fishing”: itich.
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Teann
Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
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.
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Buin
Today’s Daily Gaelic Verb is:
This word was actually very helpful for me as I had been looking for a Gaelic way to denote possession. So buin has a host of complex meanings but one of the definitions in Dwelly’s is “belong to”. It is also both a verb and a noun.
You will also see from the link above to the on-line version of Dwelly’s that there is a mistake in the rendering from the original text. It gives one of the definitions as “is relaxed to” when it should be “is related to”. The reason why it has this definition is also explained but you wouldn’t understand that given the incorrect definition shown above in the text.
Sometimes it is useful to have original source texts and not just take everything off the internet. Get a copy of Dwelly’s if you can!
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Gnìomhair Làthail – Fàs
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I thought this would be a good one to have after cuir which can also mean “plant”. Fàs means “grow” in a number of senses including the vegetative one.