Each edition we offer you the opportunity to add a little bit of Irish to your vocabulary
Phrase:
Níl aon tintéan mar do thintéan féin Go n-éirí on bóthar leat
Translation:
There’s no place like home May the road rise with you
Is as Éire dom = I am from Ireland
Tá mé Tuirseach Cad e sin? = I am tired, what is that?
Sláinte agus saol chugat! = Health and long life to you!
Maidin mhaith (ma–jean why) = Good morning
Óiche mhaith (ee-ha why) = Goodnight
Slán (Slawn) = Goodbye
Conas atá tú? (cun-is a-ta too) = How are you?
Tá mé go maith (ta may go my-h) = I am well
Go raibh maith agat (go row my-h a-gut) = Thank you
Cé atá ag glaoch, le do thoil = Who is calling Please
Craic agus ceol (crack ug-is keo-ul) = Fun and music
Sláinte! (slan- cha) = Cheers!
go maith = good
go hiontach = wonderful
an-mhaith (ar fad) = very good (entirely)
Thar barr = super
Word Power
Over the next few editions we’ll be attempting to increase your word power. Have a look at the words below and afterwards see if you know their meaning
Word Pronunciation
1. Abeyance uh-bey-uh ns
2. Ambiguous am-big-yoo-uh s
3. Pusillanimous pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muh s
4. Dictum dik-tuh m
5. Genuflection jen-yoo-flek-shuh n
6. Subterfuge suhb-ter-fyooj
7. Genteel jen-teel
8. Bibliography bib-lee-og-ruh-fee
9. Gratuity gruh-too-i-tee
10. Egress ee-gres
11. Idiom id-ee-uh m
12. Labyrinth lab-uh-rinth
Answers:
1 Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension.
2 Open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal.
3 Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
4 An authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.
5 An act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
6 An artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something.
7 Belonging or suited to polite society.
8 A complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
9 A gift of money, over and above payment due for service.
10 The act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place.
11 An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements,
12 An intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.
How did YOU score?
10 or more – Perfection!
6-9 Brilliant.
3-5 Well done.
0-2 Must do better.
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