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Dictionary Entries
riocht
níl sé i riocht a dhuil amach, (the weather) is not fit to go out (fishing).
girr-scéalach
bás girr-scéalach, sudden, unexpected death.
galfach
cf. gorta, great hunger.
bánú
bhí an t-oileán le bánú .i. na daoine le n-a thréiscint, to be evacuated.
bachlóg
chuir siad bachlóg ar a theangaidh, after which he could not speak properly or at all.
drúchtín
in gearradh drúchtín a cut between the toes from grass (féar eidir na méaraí)
scaobán
scaobán a bhaint as an uaigh De Dónaigh, to dig one spit off the grave on Sunday, for grave digging on Monday is taboo. a spit, shovelful, spadeful
lot
cancer (inward)
tuar
a' tuar aicíde, causing or generating disease (such as a rubbish dump) causing
alt
thuit sé le alt, fell over the cliff into the sea. cliff
beirt an bothar thiar, 's a mharaigh sé
it (the storm) killed two from back the road
nuair a thoisigh an gála
when the storm started
Oh, thainig an stoirm, thaing sí an-tobann, an-tobann - gála mór.
The storm came very quickly - big swell.
Ar bhris an stoirm an-tobann a Phat?
Did the storm break suddenly Pat?
an t-uisce ina fhuil
the water into blood
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