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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>March, 1893</date><idno>IG04-12109</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="187"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>Siamsa an Gheimhridh.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>7.13. bocóideacha, bacóideacha, do not mean “swell-</span>
<lb n="4"/><span>ing,” but “chequered“.</span></p>
<lb n="5"/>
<lb n="6"/><p><span>10.16.  Whenever the pronoun is to be used with such</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>personified word as bád, it must be feminine.</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>This brings about a confusion in gender,</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>which, however, is only apparent.</span></p>
<lb n="10"/>
<lb n="11"/><p><span>11.6.  Tiubharfá would be said (See Atkinson's</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Keating).</span></p>
<lb n="13"/>
<lb n="14"/><p><span>11.12.  Read an méid.  In Connacht this word is mas-</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>culine, though feminine in form.</span></p>
<lb n="16"/>
<lb n="17"/><p><span>20.8.  Eanach Chuain is the popular name.</span></p>
<lb n="18"/>
<lb n="19"/><p><span>25.25. Sciotan: d'imthigh sé na sciotán, went oft with</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>the speed of an arrow.</span></p>
<lb n="21"/>
<lb n="22"/><p><span>30.25.  Cath-mhagadh, a trick; also fid-mhagadh, a trick,</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>joke, intended really to hurt one's feelings.</span></p>
<lb n="24"/>
<lb n="25"/><p><span>41.13. na mbhó.</span></p>
<lb n="26"/>
<lb n="27"/><p><span>46.11. sul ar lobh.</span></p>
<lb n="28"/>
<lb n="29"/><p><span>51.21.  dha challeach deug would be said.</span></p>
<lb n="30"/>
<lb n="31"/><p><span>53.12.  air an sliabh.  Except after de'n and do'n, t is</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>not prefixed to masculine nouns in W.</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>Connacht.</span></p>
<lb n="34"/>
<lb n="35"/><p><span>59.2.  An dá bhó, an dá chaora, etc., are often used =</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>one's stock, property, without reference to the</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>actual number.</span></p>
<lb n="38"/>
<lb n="39"/><p><span>60.2.  bliadhain a's fiche.</span></p>
<lb n="40"/>
<lb n="41"/><p><span>62.5.  go dtí an gabha.  The phrase chuaidh sé do'n</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>ghabha = fel tot he smith's lot, share: e.g.,</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>chuaidh an breac mór dho'n ghabha, air a chrann.</span></p>
<lb n="44"/>
<lb n="45"/><p><span>63.15.  sgread mhaidne, grief to you, lit. the lament in</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>the morning, when one's losses after a nigh</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>raid by an enemy were ascertained.</span></p>
<lb n="48"/>
<lb n="49"/><p><span>75.5. mise lé aon-bhean; line II, fás na h-aon-</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>oidhche.</span></p>
<lb n="51"/>
<lb n="52"/><p><span>87.12. an cuitín dá dhearbhráthair.</span></p>
<lb n="53"/>
<lb n="54"/><p><span>99.5. muilneoir.</span></p>
<lb n="55"/>
<lb n="56"/><p><span>134.7. fiun = pearl on the eye.</span></p>
<lb n="57"/>
<lb n="58"/><p><span>21. fideán i dtroim, the opening of the skull.</span></p>
<lb n="59"/>
<lb n="60"/><p><span>137.10.  Siobán, new = roughness of feet of those who</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>go barefoot.  To remove this, and also warts,</span>
<lb n="62"/><span>a charm is used:—</span></p>
<lb n="63"/>
<lb n="64"/><p><span>A uisge cloch gan iarraidh,</span>
<lb n="65"/><span>Ní dodh iarraidh táinic mé,</span>
<lb n="66"/><span>Nighim mo chosa leat</span>
<lb n="67"/><span>Mar shúil a's go dtóigfeá</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>Na Siobán a's na faithneacha uaim.</span></p>
<lb n="69"/>
<lb n="70"/><p><span>Sometimes the first lines are a uisge tobair gan</span>
<lb n="71"/><span>iarraidh, aig iarraidh leighis tháinic mé.  At present</span>
<lb n="72"/><span>gearán = eye-tooth.</span></p>
<lb n="73"/>
<lb n="74"/><p><span>Among the points which may be debated are (I) the</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>use of the termination -as or -us, as buidheachas, or -chus.</span>
<lb n="76"/><span>The -as form = old nominative, and -us = old dative; (2)</span>
<lb n="77"/><span>the colloquial arbh ainm dó, cui erat nomen, for dárbh</span>
<lb n="78"/><span>ainm; (3) aspiration after ba, as ba chóir, and after trí,</span>
<lb n="79"/><span>as trí mhile; (4) the proper genitive of abha, a river.</span>
<lb n="80"/><span>The correct form being undoubtedly abhann.  (I cannot</span>
<lb n="81"/><span>agree with my friend Mr. O'Faherty's etymology of</span>
<lb n="82"/><span>“humbug” = uaim bhog, “soft brass!” as umha, not</span>
<lb n="83"/><span>uaim = brass; nor an t-aon bhó, as bó is feminine —</span>
<lb n="84"/><span>E.O'G.</span>
<lb n="85"/></p></div></body></text></TEI>
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