Back again with another noun related question.
In English, any word can be any other word. Verbs can be nouns, verbs can be adjectives. Adjectives can be verbs. You just end up sounding silly sometimes when you say “I purple him with my swim”; still purple acts as the verb and swim as an object.
Does this work in Gaelic?
On to the specific example!
I looked up the word “Attack”, which in English is primarily a Verb, then a Noun. In Gaelic the word turned out to be
Ionnsaigh; which means everything from Advance, Attack,Sally,effort,project,onslaught
They are all nouns though. I wanted to make the simple sentence “I attack him”. Using attack as a verb. All of the examples given for the word used it as a noun.
My first thought was, like in the motto of my Fencing school;Am fear a thug buaidh air fhein, thug e buaidh air namhaid; which in English is “He who conquers himself conquers an enemy, the literal translation is, I believe, something along the lines of “One who gives conquest unto him self, gives conquest unto an enemy”
If “One who gives conquest” translates in to “One who conquers” maybe “One who gives attack” might translate in to “One who attacks” and then in to “I attack”
So I guessed it would be “Thug me ionnsaigh air e” literally being, I give attack unto him; meaning “I attack him”
Am I going the right way, or I have I completed messed things up?
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