| Claidheamhair |
Posted on: 20-Jan-2008, 09:55 PM |
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Thank you very much! That clears that up.
So if that is the past tense, then, If I can assume like other verbs, the present tense is formed with the verb ‘to be’ and the verbal noun, then
“Thug mi ionnsaigh oirre” I attacked her
Would be in present tense
“Tha mi a’toirt ionnsaigh oirre” I attack her.
Right?
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Forum: Scottish Gaelic · Post Preview: #228393 |
| Claidheamhair |
Posted on: 20-Jan-2008, 01:18 AM |
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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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Forum: Scottish Gaelic · Post Preview: #228331 |
| Claidheamhair |
Posted on: 07-Jan-2008, 11:17 AM |
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Oh my. That explained things so easily that Im printing it off now to carry with me forever.
Thanks very very much  |
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Forum: Scottish Gaelic · Post Preview: #226430 |
| Claidheamhair |
Posted on: 05-Jan-2008, 08:47 PM |
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Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! Though I don’t fully understand when you are supposed to slenderize ( especially since I only found it saying that you slenderize by replacing the last vowels in feminine nouns, and Claidheamh is a masculine noun), I think perhaps now is not the time when I should be focusing on such details, I should start a bit smaller with simple sentences and the like.
Thanks
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Forum: Scottish Gaelic · Post Preview: #226306 |
| Claidheamhair |
Posted on: 05-Jan-2008, 12:49 AM |
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Hello there. I am new here, and to Gaelic. I have a question regardings nouns.
I study Scottish Broadsword fencing, and as part of that I have decided to learn Gaelic. To make it more personal though, I decided that I would sort of design my own vocabulary. Its more fun that way when I teach students, I can use the actual Gaelic words, and some conversation. I have a very good dictionary ( the giant Colin Marks one), but I’m afraid it doens’t explain everything. And when you are making flash cards, and don’t know the language that well, its nice to have every thing explained.
For example, I look up Sword, Claidheamh.
It gives the nominative singular; Claidheamh. I under stand that
It gives the genitive singular; chlaidheimh. I understand that
It gives the nominative plural, Chlaidhnean. I even understand that.
In the sample phrases though, they used the word Claidhimh;
Dh’aonaich e an duthaich le neart a’chlaidhimh
He united the country by the power of the sword
I check every source I can find and I cant find an explaination as to why the ‘ea’ would turn in to an i.
Does anyone know what case this is?
Is this a spelling rule when using the preposition “by the” ? if so, what is this rule?
Thank you.
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