Focail Folaithe Maigh Eo

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15 words

fágthaí

is déantaí an píosa go dh'fhear é sin, níl a dhath dhó sin fágthaí slack, lacking full development

aer

tá an ghealach ar an aer. sky

sciata

brógaí taibhse acú cho maith, they are vivi-parous also, i. they produce brógaí taibhse or young skate

féith

féitheachaí mart used in mixing mortar, sinews of cattle sinew

tinn ar ghamhain

sick of calving

cuthail

shy, bashful

crupaim

crupaim is intransitive and is differentiated from crapaim above, which is transitive and means 'to contract, retract, withdraw': a' crupadh le aois, shrinkin with age; tá na nóiníní a' crupadh isteach leis a' driúchta, the daisies are closing up under the dew. The two participles are combined to form one of those 'twin' constructions which are so expressive and common in the dialect: crupthaí crapthaí, strangled and bent under weight of curach carrying it up on to the shingle beach shrink

cnap

go mbeidh crapaíl tráthnónaí agus toirní shower; plur. in -aíl

ráig

shower, one shower after another

múr

shower

cluiche

cluife gliomach i mbárr an uisce (agus an-torann á dhéanamh acú leis) na crúbaí shoal

trathailte

thainic sé isteach bog báite is é trathailtí. shivering wet

scoradh

tá an t-arbhar a' scoradh .i. an grán a' titim de shedding

seid

shed

cloch fhaobhair

c. aoil, lime-stone; c. ghlas, schist or quartz; c. bhreac, granite; c. gheal, white , metamorphosed rock, ach gan a ligean (isteach) i n-aon bhildáil (i ngeall ar) phisleógaí sharpening stone

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