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From Irish Seoinín, a little John (in a Gaelic version of the English form, Seon, not the Irish Seán). Sidhe (Modern Sí) – the fairies, fairyland. slauntiagh – An obsolete word for sureties or guarantees, which comes from Irish sláinteacha with the same meaning. sleeveen, sleiveen – (from slíbhín) an untrustworthy or cunning person ...
(from síbín meaning "a mugful") unlicensed house selling alcohol (OED). shillelagh (from sail éille meaning "a club with a strap") a wooden club or cudgel made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob on the end. Sidhe (Irish pronunciation:) the fairy folk of Ireland, from (aos) sídhe (OED). See banshee. sleveen, sleiveen
The native term for these is béarlachas (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲeːɾˠl̪ˠəxəsˠ]), from Béarla, the Irish word for the English language. It is a result of language contact and bilingualism within a society where there is a dominant, superstrate language (in this case, English) and a minority substrate language with few or no ...
Described as both a literary and historical text, it was regularly used by Republican prisoners in Long Kesh as a means of learning and teaching Irish. [ 2 ] [ note 1 ] Is Mise continues to be relevant in post- partition Ireland, suggest scholars, as illustrating of the difficulties in identifying "Irishness" in Northern Ireland .
“Fair-headed” is the definition of this Irish moniker. 38. Calbhach. While the meaning of this name is “bald,” don’t let that keep you from using it. 39. Dubhán. Meaning “black ...
Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Irish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Irish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
While the name may be a compound of Gaelic dubh "dark" (probably referring to hair color, hence "black-haired") and eas "waterfall, cascade, rapid" (genitive easa), its meaning is sometimes interpreted as "black nurse" (Latin: nutrix nigra). [2] Dubh Essa has also been anglicized as Duvessa (e.g., in M. J. Molloy's 1964 comedy The Wooing of ...