> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:48:21 -0500
> From: Sile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [scots-l] Gaelic Translation Request
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> "Who Will Marry Me?"
>
> "leum" in this case is probably a misspelling
> of "liom" meaning "with me."
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Yes that makes more over-all sense, although 'leam' is more commonly
used these days and the 'f' in 'phosfaidh' is also a mis-spelling.
So the phrase would be, 'Which will marry with me?'
I obviously 'jumped' to a conclusion. ( I thought perhaps there may
have been an idiosyncratic association of jump and marriage, there is
after all in English, but that would have been too crude for the
gael:-)). Sometimes Occam's razor doesn't work.
regards
chic
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