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C025a-1

  1. luinsgeóracht
    Usage (EN): a' l., a' bogadaigh ar a' mbóthar, staggering from drink
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  2. lútaí rón
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): seal's flippers
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  3. lúth
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): lamb-bed
    Usage (EN): This is not a word I have heard in Erris, but it is common in the Hiberno-English of Westmeath-Longford: the ewe is putting out her loo, i. has prolapsed uterus; cf. Ó Cadhain, An Braon Broghach, notes, pp. 30, 32
    Tuilleadh
  4. mac a' pheata
    Usage (EN): chuile mhac a' pheat' acú, every one of them, every mother's son of them
    Tuilleadh
  5. mada ceatha
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): rainbow (complete)
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  6. magpies
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): according to the number seen together at a time portend: 1, mí-á; 2, á; 3, socraoid; 4, pósadh
    Tuilleadh
  7. maidir le
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): as regards
    Usage (EN): maidir le cúrsaí truipéad dó, well, as for truipéad
    Tuilleadh
  8. máirseál na fuiseóige
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): the lark's song
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  9. mar-thiompó
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): tumbling (of horse)
    Usage (EN): ghá mar-thiompó héin (she was) tumbling
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  10. marbh-fáisc
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): curse
    Usage (EN): is iomaí mara fáisc a chuir Ned air, cursed him often, saying 'mara fáisc air'.
    Tuilleadh

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