#asgaeilge — Public Fediverse posts

Is it true that there are 99 Irish words for rain? Author and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who died last week at age 55, wasn't sure, so he wrote a book about it, "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun)." Here's an excerpt, which was published in the Irish Times. "The word for a sudden, heavy shower is spairn; as opposed to sprais, a sudden, heavy, spattering shower; or búisteog, which is simply a sudden shower; or múirling, a sudden heavy shower that moves like a wall of water; or liongar ceatha, a particularly nasty sudden shower; or tuile shléibhe, a sudden shower near a hillside," he writes. "I could fill this entire page with rain words, but what’s more interesting is the insight this abundance of terms gives into our forebears; the countless sodden, shivery experiences that led to the creation of each word."

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#Books @bookstodon #Language #Linguistics #Irish #Ireland #AsGaeilge #Culture

Bit of silly hedge mapping again...
#openstreetmap #asgaeilge #galway

Fuair Dónall Ó Conaill (Daniel O'Connell) bas ar 15ú Bealtaine 1847 i Genova, san Iodáil. Polaiteoir Éireannach a bhí ann. Throid sé ar son saoirse na ndaoine ar fud an domhain. Is é ‘An Fuascailteoir’ nó ‘An Saoirseoir’ a thugtar ar an gConallach. Bhí Gaeilge aige ó dhúchas, agus bhí Béarla líofa aige chún maith.

#Éire #StairNahÉireann #DónallÓConaill #Gaeilge #AsGaeilge #ArAnLáSeo

Úsáidtear an téarma chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar imeachtaí 1948, chún maith le géarleanúint agus díláithriú leanúnach na bPalaistíneach ar fud an réigiúin, forghabháil na gcríoch Palaistíneach. 2/2

#Stair #ArAnLáSeo #NaPalaistínigh #LáCuimhneacháinNakba #AsGaeilge #Gaeilge

Is é 15 Bealtaine Lá Cuimhneacháin Nakba (ذكرى النكبة, Dhikra an-Nakba, 'Cuimhne na Tubaiste'). Tagraíonn Al-Nakba do dhíláithriú agus do dhiúscairt fhoréigneach na bPalaistíneach, mar aon le scrios a sochaí, a gcultúr, a bhféiniúlacht, a gcearta polaitiúla, agus a mianta náisiúnta. 1/2

#Stair #ArAnLáSeo #NaPalaistínigh #LáCuimhneacháinNakba #AsGaeilge #Gaeilge

Does anyone know if that is St John's wort? Only one other occurrence in the Schools' Collection. #folklore #asgaeilge #gaeilge #SchoolsCollection #HibernoEnglish
https://duchas.ie/en/cbes/stories?SearchText=moguard&SearchLanguage=ga&Page=1&PerPage=20
Is it some weird Hiberno-English mix of mo ("my") + guard, like "my protector"?

Also on the lookout for more Gaelgeoiraí as Mastodon. Ca bhfuil sibh?sigh?! #gaelgeoir #asGaeilge #ledothoil

Today’s adventures #AsGaeilge with #duolingo