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IRISH.
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A^ouns.
Adjectives.
Biieuj,
a
lie.
BlteujAC,
given
to
lies.
BuA^o, victory.
BtiA]6eAC, victorious.
peA]i5,
anger.
7^eA]i5AC, angry,
"piltiue,
truth.
pjlijUeAc,
faithful.
Sujob, glee.
Su]r)bAC, cheerful.
From
the active
signification peculiar to
the
ending
ac,
and from
the
meaning
of the
term i;eAC, an individual,
an
agent
(a word of
which apparently ac is
a
mere fragment),
adjectives with this suffix become personal
nouns, expres-
sive
of office, action, or individuality
;
as
—
2lc<vc,
a
man
of
terror,
a
giant ;
from
aca6,
fear.
Bv\c<\c,
a
lame man;
from bAC,
a
hindrance,
an
impedi-
ment
;
V, to
hinder.
CfiiijceAC, liunch-backed
;
from
cftuic,
a
hump.
CAcoiliceAc,
a
Catholic
;
from
the
Gr.
KadoktKos.
CitjceAC, a
Quaker
;
from c^t]!:,
to shake.
2i)<M)AC,
a
monk
;
from
n)o
(old Irish),
a
person
;
and aoi^ac,
alone
;
root, act;, one.
2t)A|tc<\c,
a
rider;
from
iTjAitc
(old Irish)
a
horse.
Adjectives
ending
in ac
are derived from the
past parti-
ciples
of
verbs,
by
affixing c
(asp.) or ac to the final
vowel
;
as,
CaiU,
lose,
perish,
destroy;
CA^llce, lost; CA]lceAC, adj.,
perishing; as,
Uv
CAilceAC, a
famishing day; CAjlceAC,
71,
a loser, one
that
lost;
a
gelding,
an
eunuch.
2t)]l,
destroy; rn^lce, destroyed;
n^ilceAC,
destructive.
2t)ol,
praise ;
njolcA, praised
;
tt;oIcac, praising,
causing
praise.
Obs.
1.
—
That from
the past participle, an adj. having
an
active or
passive meaning is
readily formed
by
suffixing c
for
the active, or
prefixing
]or)
for
the
passive ; as, ttjoIca,
praised
;
ior)rÍ7olcA, to-be-praised ;
n^olcAC,
causing
praise
;
fo-molcA,
easily-praised
;
bo-rnolcA, hard-to-be-praised.
Obs.
2.
—
Patronymics,
sir-names, nick-names,
or
titles
of
honor
or
dishonor,
end
in
ac
;
as,
2llbAt)Ac,
a
Scotchman
;
BiteACAOAc,
and,
contractedly,
bjteAcijAc,
a Welshman;
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6j|teAi)i)<\c,
an Irishman
;
SpAineAc,
a
Spaniard.
h]t]^V^c,
an individual
of the family
of O'Brien;
BIacac, Blake;
BfieAcuAC,
Walsh
;
BfiuijAC,
Browne
;
Bú|tcAc, Bourke
;
'DorboAlAC,
a man ot the
name MacDonald
;
Kh^Iicac,
O'Koike;
Seo8Ac,
Joyce
;
Se^bAc,
Hawkins—
from
i^eAbAC,
a
hawk.
Again,
as above, bovCAC,
lame
—c|toinAC,
crooked
;
citujceAC, hunch-backed,
gibbous
;
c]tofAC,
marked with
traces of the small-pox
—streaked from
ciiof,
a
cross.
Some
other nouns
of no certain classification
end in
ac
;
as,
5eAl-
Iac,
the moon;
piAÓAC
(^fee-yach), hunting;
venison. But
a few end in Iac
(which,
perhaps, is
a
broken form
of luce,
folk,
people [Gr. Xaoi]
)
;
as,
coas-Iac,
a
house,
a
family,
the hearth —irom
ci5e
and luce; 05-lAC,
a young lad;
citjonlAC,
stubbles
—from c]v\o\%
withered, and Iac;
another
form
of
this word is
codIac
;
as, in the words
of
the
song
:
"
Cot;Uc
sIaj*
ai)
í:ot^ú)^\]u'
MONTHS OF THE
YEAR—
n^IOfA
T;A bl(A51)A.
January, 3íoi)bA|t.
LuAnAi*
is derived
from
Februaiy,
peAbfiA.
LuAi;
(Latin,
Luna),
the
March,
iil)A]ii:.
moon,
and
f-'e]}*b,
a festival;
April,
2lbiiA0i)
[quasi)
;
from because
that month
in
A,
water;
orAó,
prospeious, which the corn
ripens
was
b|iAon,
dropping, distilling.
sacred to
Luau,
as
BeAÍ-
May,
Be^\lceii)e.
ceine,
May, was to
BbaI,
June,
w)] TÍ^eAÓoi;
ai) c-^ah;-
the
sun.
HAjÓ.
September,
SeACc-rb].
July,
jiql,
Ai)
rb]
be]5ioi;Ac
October,
Occ-ii)].
be'i;
c-i'AibitAb.
November,
Sv\ii;<\|i;,
or iT)| i;a
August,
Lúi^Ap, XT)]
1)A
LuUA- fATÍ)l)A.
fA,
the month of
Lanunas.
December,
"iDeic-n)].
January
is called also Ai;
ceus
ii;f
bc'n
Tij.bliA5An,
the first
mouth
of
the
year.
February,
í^exxbttA, is called also
itjf
pa
b-^AojUió, the month
of winds
and
storms
;
and
"
tt;f
vi'.\
véile
'blMo^i^
—the
month
of the feast
of Bridget."
"In
all
Ireland
to
this day the month
of
February
is
called
in
Irish 'the
month
of
Bridget's
festival,'
the festival being
on
the
first day
of that
month."
—
Calendar
of
Irish Saints,
p.
66,
edited by Rev. Matthew
Kelly,
D.D.,
Mayuooth
College.
The
middle months of the four
seasons, March,
June,
September,
December,
are called the middle
months,
March,
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of Spring
;
June, of
Summer
;
September,
of
Autumn
;
and
December, of
Winter, thus
:
June,
rv]
TÍjeAÓAij
at?
c-fAii)-
]tAl6.
September,
rpí
rrjeAOAt;
At)
Sprint
xlled eA|tjtAC
;
December,
rn]
rbeAOAt)
ai)
3ein)|te.
March,
xv]
irjeAOAr) At)
eA|t-
]tA15.
Autumn,
f03ri)A|i,
and
some-
times
luAt)Af;
Summer,
fATt)|tAÓ;
Winter,
5eib|tA.
The
Irish
terms
have
been already
explained
in the
foregoing Lessons.
VOCABULARY.
glufrnAliA,
Australia
;
for
Australasia,
|
and
njéin,
mind, i.e.,
keeping in
ie..
Southern Asia.
For the!
the
mind, remembering,
meaning of
ia,
see
note, Lesson
olino,
adj., clear,
transparent, pel-
41.
I
lucid
; n,
ihe
bright heavens,
Cjui)-'pAirin3e,
the
Pacific
;
from
cjun,
calm,
quiet
;
and
|:A]nn5e,
a
sea.
Cu]ri)ni5i7r),
V,
I
remember,
recollect;
from
the
root,
cuimoe,
m, me-
brightness ; also a
fortress or
fort.
olAn,
clean
;
and 5le,
pure,
transparent, are adjectives
of
kindred
meaning.
, remembrance.
KAccuiri)ne 2i)air^neAc,
adj., fond,
beloved, aflfec-
tionate
;
from
nniiT^n,
fondness,
joy,
natural love.
?I}uninin,
fond one
;
fond love
;
"CAiclfn
njo
lijuinnin
—
Kathlin,
my fond love"
—
Song,
by Mrs.
Crawford.
UAi5noAc,
adj.,
lonely, lonesome,
soli-
tary
;
from uac, fear,
dread
;
and
SineAc,
begetting,
producing.
leAc
?
Don't
you
remember
.'
1r
cu]ti;ne
lion),
I
do
remember.
Cuiti)T)eAc,
adj.,
mindful ;
cu]n).
i
neAitjAjl, liable
to be
kept
in
|
mind.
Cuin)r)eAcóiTi,
a
recorder
;
a
remembrancer. CuiiurieACAo,
I
m,
a
keepsake, a
remembrance,
a
memorial. Cujnjria is
a
con-
;
tracted
form of
con)e\r)e, a
com-
j
pound formed from
co,
together
;
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EXERCISE
LXVIL
[In this
Exercise
we
give a letter written in very
simple
language,
from
a
son
in
London
to
his
father
—an
Irish
pea-
sant.]
IcTjt»-^'),*
At)
reiiiAó
U\
be
li)],
2lt)
2lu5uirc, 1860.
21
2lcAiTi
Ó^lif
—
"Ca
]-e At)!) Art)
]*5|tiobAi) a
cu|i cujAb;
civ
ti)e
Ai)0]|*
le
6a
W]
ai)I) yo.
Jy
Tt)ó|t,
Ai)-tt)óft
At)
bAjle
é.
H]
b-pul bAjle
Aifi
bic
ai)1)
A]t
b-qft
^e^t)
co|*-
•
In
page
95
(Part II.) of
"Easy Lessons," we give the Irish
spelling
and
derivation of the
word
"
London."
In
the same
uage
we observe
in a
note,
under the word
"
Manchester,"
that
"
in
modern Ir ish it would be
better
to
adopt the
names
by which
this
and other English to.vns
are
familiarly
known,
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AfT)A]l
leif.
"Cii
^e
occ n^^le
A]]t -pAb a5u]*
]•§
ri^ile
A^^t
le^ceAb
\)0 tdaji
y]V.
3l^ S^'
b-pu]l ]*e
co
n)o\i
a'j*
ii^rji-
f]rn
6u|C, civ n)^-ye
UAi5i)eAC
AT)t), Tt)A]t 5eAll
t)ac
b-^^u^l
A^^AtT}
Aor)
biqrje be njo
Tbu^rjciii
|:éii)
le ^e-\cy]X)z
(to see).
"CAjb bAOji^e
AT)t)
]*o
AT* 5AC
q|t pAO] 'ij
SH^lt)
:
pe]C]n)
5AC
Uv
AT)
C-6l]teAT)UAC
A^Uj* A1) C-2llbAt)AC, AT)
'pJlAT^CAC,
A5Uf
AT) SpAjT^eAC,
AT) C-2lTT)eit]CAT)AC,
A5Uf
TT)U]T)CT|t
Af
SlufcitAliA,
A5Uf
Ó
b-oilsAii)
(islands)
At)
cjuT)-].*bAlT^li3<i
(Pacific).
CuiTbT)]5]TT)
50
xr)]V]C
AT|t
TT)0
CAT|tb|b
'f
AT)
TTJ-bA^le
;
0]tC
f^ir),
A
ACA]jl
6il]|*,
Al|l_TT)0
Tr)AéA(|l,
A]|t
TT)0 6eA|lb-
b|iACAi|t Seo|t|*A
A5Uf
Ai|i
Pacjiuic,
a]]\
rtjo
beA|Tb-f*ui]t
Ut)A (Winefrid), a5u|*
A]jt rpo col-ceACA]iACA.
"Cix
bujl
AjATi)
50 b-piiiliÓ
U]le
xV^v.
7Z'<x
tt)& pé]i)
a
fliv]t)ce
tí)A]C,
than endeavour to
revive
those that are now obsolete." For this reason we
now write
London, lonoon
;
Australia,
ilurcT^Aliv\ ;
August,
2Ui5urc. For
if foreign
words, or
those
of
technical import,
and
names
of
special localities,
have
been without
the slightest hesitation
adopted
into the vocabulary
of the
Teutonic nations,
what
is
to
prevent
Irishmen from using
the same liberty
in
adopting,
as
their own, words designating
places
and things
which,
in days
of old,
were
not known, or if known, not so
fully
as at present, to our Irish
ancestors, and for
which, consequently, they have left
us no
nomenclature.
The writer
of
these
Lessons
has, therefore,
no hesitation in introducing,
when
necessary, into Gaelic, words like the following
:
—
Electricity, telegraph, tele-
gram. Algebra.
These terms are so
familiar to English
speakers
that we are not
surprised
to hear occasionally persons apparently
educated, but
who
cannot
certainly
lay
claims
to
scholarship, speak of
them as pure
English,
and
with ignorant
simplicity
ask
those conversant with Keltic,
what
is the Gaelic or Irish
of
technical
names
of foreign origin, not considering
that
they
are
quite
as
Irish
as
they
are
English
or
French.
The introduction of
words
of
this class into the
Gaelic
vocabulary does
not by any means prove
that it
is
wanting in copiousness
or
richness. On
the
contrary
there is
no tongue, not even
Greek or German,
that can
compete with
Gaehc
in
its
feasibility of
forming compounds, and its ever-productive fecun-
dity
in yielding, in the
hands
of
any competent linguistic artist,
new terms
by
which every shade of
meaning can
be
fully and
fitly expressed
;
yet it is
true that, no
matter how rich or
copious
soever,
or
how
fecund in
giving
birth
to terms a
language
may be,
instances
will occur
in which
no combina-
tion of
primitives or derivatives will convey the exactly
identical
idea which
a
particular name,
known
from common usage,
will convey.
This is well
exemplified
in the French language.
No
enemy
of
the French
people can
deny
that their language is rich and copious
in
the
highest
degree
;
yet
Frenchmen
cannot, it seems, find
in their language equivalents for
"
beef-
steak,"
"
meetings,"
"
tenant-right,"
"
eviction,"
"
poor-house,"
"
my
lord,"
"
steamer,"
"
Whig,"
"
Tory."
No literal translation will
convey,
in
the
French
language, the
idea
attached to
these words
in
English.
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bo
í)biA, ^]6
x)] b-pu]l At)
^peu]t
atjij yo co
30]in)
A5Uf
CO
slitjo,
t)o ai)
c-Ae|i
co
]*lA]T)ceATbAil
a'}*
CAjb
A5A]b-]*e.
M|
piAijt me
^•A0|tcu5AÓ
Ai|i
bjc
]:5f
; acc civ
biijl
asatt)
le]f
A
5-c]0i)i:)
I'eACcrbAjoe
(at
the end
of
a
week) le
cot)3-
t)A6
<t)é.
Bei^
AjATT)
AiitjeAfc»
le
cu|i cu5<\b
'r)UA]it
fSlt]-
obi:<\]6
n)e
Ajt^f*.
5o
b-c]
j-p?,
A3U|*
50
b]iAC
ir
ir>i|-e,
a
ACAijt
bilir,
bo
in^AC n)U]|tr)eAC,
605AT).
rOPvTY-FIRST
LESSON.
Derivative Nouns
in Irish
are personal or
abstract
:
Personal
Nouns
end in
ó|]t,
A]|ie,
a],
a^ó,
and are formed
from primitive nouns
or from
past
participles.
<t)o]tii^,
a
door;
bofiufO]|t,
and,
contractedly,
bo|t]*ó|it.
?!s\ot,
labour,
punishment
;
f
Aoéópt,
a
punisher,
a
torturer.
2l)olcA, praised,
past
part.
;
Tt)olcói]t, a
praiser.
0iu\6u]5ce,
loved
;
5|ií\6ii]5éeoijt.
S.^iuqjce,
overcome,
rescued, surpassed,
exceeded, violated
;
j-A|tu]5ceoiit,
one
who
by
persevering
overcomes another;
a rescuer,
a
conqueror,
a
violater
; root,
]*iv|i,
very,
over-
much.
Personal
Nouns
in
Ai^ie.
CeAl3, deceit
; ceAl3Ai|te,
a
deceitful,
tricky
fellow.
C|iuic, a
harp
; citii]ci]te,
a harper.
SeAl5,
hunting; ^eAt3A||ie,
a hunter.
The endings
óijt,
A]|te,
are
supposed
to
be
broken forms
of
the
word
f
eA|t,
a man
;
if
so, |:eAji
is also
the
root of the
Latin
ending or
;
as,
amator,
3|ií^6ui3éeo]]i
;
and of the
English
ending
er
;
as,
love?-.
Personal
Nouns
in
A],
ajó,* u]Ó
(we omit the usual
final
e).
Cac,
a battle,
a battalion
;
caca^o,
a
warrior.
2i)uc,
a
pig,
swine
;
Tt7ucAi8,
a
swine-herd.
*Ia presenting
to
the student
the
meaning
of
the termination A)»,
a],
oi
Aoi. we must
ascend to the verv
cradle
of Keltic
syllabling. In
tracing thence
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ScAjia,
a
story,
a
liistory
;
|-cai|ia]6, an
historian.
"Ciieub,
a
flock
;
c|ieubA]6,
a
shepherd.
Abstract Nuuns terminate in
a]*
(or eAj*),
m.
;
Acz,fem.
;
or in
the gen.
case
sing,
feminine
of adjectives.
2ly
or
eAf,
m.
Adjs., rt7A)c, good;
rr)o,]tec^\, m,
goodness.
Olc, bad;
olcAf,
badness.
CAjiAb,
a
friend
;
ca|ia&a|*,
friendship.
to the present the
several
meanings of the word, we
see aa illustration
of the
way
in which
human
speech
has grown.
ii],
Ao],
or AGIO is
a
primative—
the
root
of many
families
of words.
In
its very earliest
acceptation it
means
(1)
element,
and,
therefore,
(2)
fire, air,
water,
iilj, fire, is
still preserved
in its
derivative,
AojbeAl,
a
coal;
and
its
diminutive
form,
AoibcAlós,
or Aoibló^,
a
spark, i'lj, air,
in
AeoAfi
or
Aeri
; ai,
water,
in
Ab, fluid, the
root of AbAjn,
a
river;
(3)
a first
principle, therefore,
or
cause;
(4)
a
being,
a
human
being,
a person,
as
we
see
in the words
rAoj, a
sage
(from
ro,
good
;
and aoj,
being); bAoj,
a
bad
man
(from oo, bad; and
aoi)
;
onAof,
a druid
(from
SAjn,
oak
;
and
aoi)
;
p»^ló,
a prophet (from
va,
a
cause
;
and A]ó)
;
Latin, votes
; one of the
order
of
priests,
to whom,
among
the Celts, the
ofiice of offering
sacrifice
and
explaining natural causes
was
assigned,
O'B.
3-15;
(5)
the
liver,
which
so
well aids in supporting
life, in
this
sense it
is
written
ac, and
aod
—plural
AeóA.
In
its
signification
of
person, applied
specially, it means
(C) stranger,
a guest
—
in
which sense
it is
commonly
written
ao]ó.
(Hence AojóeAC,
hospitable,
courteous
;
AoióeAcc,
hospitality,
courteousness.)
Also
(7)
a re-
spectable,
skilful,
learned
person
;
and,
in the abstract,
(8)
skill,
knowledge,
honor,
respect,
learning,
discipline, elegance,
stateliness
;
(9)
a
swan.
It
not only signifies a
being, but the
al)ode
of
beings
; therefore,
territory,
land, island;
as,
f
Columb
CjUe, the
Island
of
Columbkille;
(Hebrew,
ai,
an
island)
; also the
substance,
or wealth,
which any territory
must
contain.
Hence it
signifies
cattle,
a
herd
—
particularly sheep
;
from
aoid,
a herd,
is
derived AojoAjjae,
a
keeper
of
flocks,
and,
in
a
special sense,
a
shepherd.
From Ao|,
a
being,
is
formed
nAoi
(i.e.,
ah
aoi), a creature
;
and its
di-
minutive form,
which,
to this
day, is in
common use,
oAoióAn,
or, by
chang-
ing Ó into
n,
tjAojníNr),
an infant.
Also
ni,
or
nio,
a
girl,
a female descendant
;
which is employed before
the
family
names
of females,
as
Ua,
or
O,
is before
those of males;
as, n)C\ine "Hi"
ContjAiU
jpscAn
t^oiijnAill
Uj
CoodajU,
Mary O'Connell, the
daughter
of Daniel
O'Connell.
"
\^,"
and
not
"
Ua,"
or
O,
is placed before
the
family
name
when women
are spoken of.
0)&e, a
forefather,
an
educator, a professor,
a teacher, is derived
from
AO), and
be, of; i.
e.,
a
man of
learning,
knowledge,
skill,
discipline;
or from
AOI,
a
being
; and t^é,
of
God
;
one
holding
God's place
in the
guidance
of
youth,
^loi&o,
youth,
springs
from this
root, and its derivative
AoiseASAc,
well-behaved
:
so
do
many
others
which apparently are simple words.
Those
we have given
will
suffice.
SELF-INSTRUCTION IN
IRISH.
255
O5IAC,
a
young
man,
a
bondman
of
metre.
05lAc<\r, bondage, a
kind
2lct,f.
2loi;bA,
adj.,
single; from
<xon, one; Aot^bAcc,
unity
<t)AOUA>
««)".,
human; b^oijACc, humanity.
TttAlll,
n, a slave
;
c|tAilleACc,
slavery.
S^eul,
a story
;
]'5eulA]6,
a
story-teller
;
|*5eulA]Óe<\cc, story-
telling.
•
SeAl^A]]te,
a
hunter
;
feAl5Ai|teAcc,
hunting.
2t)eAUcó)|t,
a deceiver
;
Tt7eAllc5i|teAcc,
the
act
of deceiving.
6,
the gen. case sing.
fern, of adjectives.
2i]t&,
high;
A]|i&e, height.
"CitoiD,
heavy,
deep, pensive, pregnant ;
cfiojnje,
heaviness,
pensiveness, pregnancy.
'S^i^li
white, bright;
5ile,
brightness, whiteness.
Fiom
i-Um)
comes
I'lAjuce,
and not
|-U|i)e;
and
from
t*'<'^0|t,
X^O]\iye,
and not |*AO|]ie
;
bAOjt,
bAO]iife; j-AOftfAcc
and
bAO}i|-Acc,
freedom and
slavery.
Diminutives
in
at?,
m.; in
it;,
mas.
ovfem.;
in
6-^,Jem. ;
as,
2llib,
high.
2lit&Ar),
an
elevation, a ter-
Bocc,
poor.
Cí;oc,
m,
a
hill.
Loc,
a lake.
Í)aII,
blind.
BoccAU,
a
poor
person.
Ct;ocAi), m, a
hillock
;
cr)o-
c
A
11^0,
a
very
small hill.
tocAT),
a
small lake,
f
Í)v\lló3,/, play
called blind-
man's
buii";
a
bandage co-
vering
the
eyes ; a buffet,
a leech,
a
mole,
a
dor-
mouse,
blind-fish,
or king-
fish.
^<\llv\n, m,
a
great heap
;
a
cairn,
an
Ogham
monu-
ment; also for
&AlU\itAi;,
m, a blind fellow;
one who
is
purblind.
256 SELP-rNSTRUCTION
IN
IRISIT.
CiA]t,
dusky, grey,
dark.
CiA^aoj,
f^
a black insect
From
ciA]i
is derived
(St.) with
many
claws
; a
kind
CiAit<M/s
name, and
that of beetle,
a
chafer
;
c^a-
of Kinom,
which, in Irish,
|tAi), m,
a small
black
sod;
is
CiA]t6ubAi7,
meaning
a a
clod of
turf,
swarthy, black haired
per-
son —Transactioiis
of
the
Ossianic Society. (Note
by
Standish
Hayes,
vol.
iii.,
p.
50.)
Stewart is
justly
of opinion that the
termination
rtAjo
or
nió,
added
to
nouns, has
a
collective (not
a
plural) import, like the
termination
rie
in the
French
words,
cavalerie,
infanterie,
and ry in the
English words,
cavalry,
infantry,
yeomanry
;
as,
lv\oct\Aió,
a band
of heroes.
—
O'Donovan,
p.
333.
Of this
class are
:
|
&AC|tA]Ó,
cavalry
; from e<xc,
a steed.
6iiuÍai6,
birds
;
from eut),
a
bird.
?t)(\c]i<Ni6,
youths; from
mAC, a
son.
Many
words that are not
diminutives end in
At); as, liib,
a bend
;
liibAi;),
w,
a
bow
;
n^ofiAt),
many,
a
large
number
;
from
njóii,
large
;
CA|*At) (from ca|*, turn, or
coy,
foot)*,
a
path;
oilleAi),
an
island; from ol,
above,
over
(as
in the
word
ol-A^lpeAc, cis-alpine), and
\'m%
the tide,
i.e.,
land
above the waves
;
or
from
oile,^other, apart ;
and
Iao,
land,
i.e., land apart from the main
land.
Other words ending in at), from cAi), time ; or
from
cajt),
possessions; are of this class; as,
xnt^'\Y),
eternal,
ever-lasting,
as
found
in the last
part of the
Apostles' creed (Atjrjf
at)
tT)-beACA
fuACA]!},
and
[in]
life everlasting),
is derived
from
f
o,
bliss, blissful, and
cAti,
time
; meaning the
bhssful
con-
tinuity
of eternal life. From the
termination ca^t),
or
cat?,
land, a
region, riches, possessions in land or in
stock,
are
formed
the words
fiotjcAjr»,
a
vineyard ; from
p]on,
wine, and
cAt)
;
|tofCAi),
a
rose-garden
;
n)ui|iicAr),
a
garden
of
myrtles
;
BtiicATt),
Britain—the
land of
the
Brits, or
speckled
peo-
ple
;
2t)
a^iiic
A]
r>,
Mauritania—the
cat)
of
the
Mauri
;
l)]i)-
bufCAT),
the CAT) or
region along
the
river
Indus
or
Sindus,
as
it was
originally called.
JAC,
a
region,
a
territory,
is
in its
broken form
]a,
the
ter-
SELF-TNSTRTTCTION IN
IRISH.
257
mination of
almost all the
Latin
topographical names
that
have
that ending.
Ex.
:
Assyria,
2lf|*H|tiAC,
from
2lf|*u]t
and
lAc.
It is,
however, found as
a
prefix in
the
word
jACA]lle,
the region of beauty.
A few
words end in
bA|t,
top, produce
;
as,
ceoUbAtt,
melody,
warbling
;
ceolAbAti,
da
T)-eur),
the warbling
of
birds;
from
ceol,
song;
&iqllebA|t,
foliage,
leaves (Scotch,
bjleAc).
pAoj
CoiUce
3Ur.
"We believe the following
'
Chansonnette'
to be
the
production of
a
Con-
naught poet. His poetry has
outlived
his name
:
—
icon
:
—
" One
morning very early,
one morning
in the
Spring.''
I-
i^AC
AO]b]ri
so
DA
b-élOÍmb
D'eirtfoSAO
50
b-^M^^i
'S
A
bibeAno
A
ceileAbAfi
le i)-A
céile
2l]tt
Aor)
criAojb
AmíviD
!
•H]
TlJAtt
rm
ÓATT)
péjn, A'r
ttoiT)'
ceub
rrijle
oV''-M>
—
\X
f
AbA Ó
DA
cé]le
o\iiS]x)r)
b'ejt»ioeADt)
5AC U\.
!]•
1r
bisine
f
lOHA
At) l]le,
fr
&eire
Í
'da
'0
roé|ri)
If
bit)oe
f
'n
A!)
beiolino,
'S
ir
roiU]5e
1
T);%
n'ánéin—
lr
peArin
ioda
no
«iie
21
UAirleAc-
'r
*
Tpeino,
'5
A Oja! cX\
it
da
i:lA]cir
puAroAji
so Ti)'
péinn.
(
Ti
anslation.)
UNDER
THE GREENWOOD.
How
pleasant, little
warblers !
Smiles Morn upon
your bow'rs,
Where
each sings
to his love, beside
hi.
In
the
gladness
of sunny
hours.
Not thus
—ah, not
thus
—shines morning
On me
and
my
darling
queen
;
It may
break
over both
as brightly.
But far is the way
between
!
258
SELF-INSTRUCTION
IN IRISH.
She's
whiter
than the
white
lily,
Oh lovelier
to
gaze
upon
!
She's sweeter than violin
singing
—
More radiant than the
Sun.
But, than
all her
beauty,
more beauteous
Is
her
mind's
nobility
—
O
Lord
!
make
short this
absence
—
This bitter woe to me
!
Translated
by
Erionnach.
Verbs
end, for the first person
singular, in ^xx).
In order to
know the
verbal
endings
it is necessary
to
learn
thoroughly the
conjugation
of
a regular active
verb,
which
has been already
furnished
in
the
"
Easy
Lessons
;"
see
Lessons
49,
50.
VOCABULARY.
ilri)5An,
m, privation,
tribulation,
]r)Dle.\cr
;
from
]no,
or
jnrjij, and
afHiction ; from
A\r)
(a privative
leaver,
a lesson,
particle),
and
5.\ri,
aid,
help.
]ori.\m
(from ]ot),
or
Ann, in; and
2lf)ttó,
m,
more
correctly,
adíií^, or
i
aod, one), the
same
;
lopAnt)
Anti*^^,
from
ap, not, and
}\-\t,
\
A5ur,
the same as
; b'jonnAt)
prosperity, misery,
hardship, dis-
,
lejte
A5ur,
it was the
same with
tress,
misfortune,
great poverty.! her
—
i.e.,
she
considered it the
Z'A
tne Ann Anno,
I am
in great same
as.
poverty.
l^lnriócAc
and
AnnoóAc,
lonni'iM^,
m, an attempt,
an attack;
CU5
re
lonnr^Mo
ottnj, he made
an
attack
on me
;
v, to
attack
;
prep.,
to,
towards
;
it
is derived
from
]onn,
or
Ann,
in
;
and
rujoe,
sit.
L»\cA)ri,
n,/,
presence,
company;
Ia-
cAjneAcc,
presence; a
UtAjti
{adv), (at)
present
; as, b]
n)e
A
lAcAin,
I
was
present.
OibaAr,
m,
education
; from
oj&e, a
teacher,
a professor. {See
Note
p.
254.)
S]l,
V,
to
shed, part; A15
rjl"
^-^
n&eofi,
shedding tears.
aiSicted,
poor,
miserable.
t)UAr)-reAvnjAc,
adjec,
persevering;
from
buAT),
lasting
;
and
reAf-
CeAnn
2J)ATtA,Kenmare
;
from
ceAnn,
head ;
and
n)AfiA,
gen.
case
of
nniin»
of the
sea.
t>|obixil,
/.
(from
&],
bAil,
a
blessing
issue,
success
;)
struction.
T^oslAn),
m, learning.
lOcleAcc,
/,
understanding, intellect,
ingenuity,
device
;
jijcleAcc, for
I
wanting;
and
a
prosperous
)ss,
defeat, de-
EXERCISE
LXVIIL
CeAnnn)A|tA,
21t)
t^jcceAo li\
oe
ini
ti^eoóAin
Hi)
Vo^mjn,
1861.
21
rbfc
TT)U|{ir)]3
—
2lu
le]ci|i
bo
rsfnob
cu 5 Loi;&ot; ai?
feorbA&-lA-8eit5
fee 't; ri))
a
civ cajic,
&o
puA]t<\rr)A|i
(we
received)
Ajjt n)A]b]\) (ia [the]
morning)
ai;t) ]u6.
B|