Nigel, Post it to Gaelic-gu-leor list, you'll get a quick answer.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Charles McGregor wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > 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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