> From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:48:20 +0100
> Subject: [scots-l] Gaelic Translation Request
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> Can any Gaelic speakers give me a translation of "Cia Phosfaidh leum" and
> a rough pronunciation?
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> Nigel Gatherer, Crieff
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'cia' is an interrogative, 'what?' or 'which?', 'leum' is ' leap' or
'jump'.
They are pronounced roughly 'keeyAH' and 'ilyayum'.
'Phosfaidh' has me stumped and suspect that it is possibly a
corruption of some tense of 'posadh' or 'fosadh' and therefore
something perhaps to do with a wedding or stopping something.
But I'm only a long suffering learner.
regards
chic
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