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Slán abhaile (Irish: [ˌsˠl̪ˠaːnˠ əˈwalʲə]) is an Irish language phrase used to bid goodbye to someone who is travelling home. A literal translation of the phrase is "safe home", which is used in the same way in Hiberno-English. [1] Slán ('safe') is used in many Irish-language farewell formulas; abhaile means 'homeward'.
Read on to find out whether the Irish exit is a social faux pas, or just a seamless way to say goodbye. What is an Irish exit? Simply put, an Irish exit is leaving without saying goodbye.
A French leave, sometimes French exit, Irish goodbye or Irish exit, is a departure from a location or event without informing others or without seeking approval. [1] Examples include relatively innocuous acts such as leaving a party without bidding farewell in order to avoid disturbing or upsetting the host, or more problematic acts such as a ...
In Irish, the popular greeting is Dia dhuit (singular) or Dia dhaoibh (plural, meaning "God with you" in both cases), similar to the English "goodbye", a contraction of God be with ye; [4] today, "goodbye" has a less obviously religious meaning. Catalan formal expression adéu-siau ("be with God", in archaic Catalan)
puck – (in hockey) Almost certainly from Irish poc, according to the OED. puss – As in sourpuss, comes from Irish pus, a pouting mouth. rapparee – An Irish highwayman, from ropaire (a stabber) rath – A strong circular earthen wall forming an enclosure and serving as a fort and residence for a tribal chief. From Irish rath.
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Tiocfaidh ár lá (Irish pronunciation: [ˈtʲʊkiː aːɾˠ ˈl̪ˠaː] tchu-kih ar la); is an Irish language sentence which translates as "our day will come". It is a slogan of Irish republicanism. "Our day" is the date hoped for by Irish nationalists on which a united Ireland is achieved.
Other aspects of Irish morphology, while typical for an Insular Celtic language, are not typical for Indo-European, such as the presence of inflected prepositions and the initial consonant mutations. Irish syntax is also rather different from that of most Indo-European languages, due to its use of the verb–subject–object word order. [1]