| 单词 | irish gaelic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish Gaelic Irish Gaelic n. = sense B. 2a. [Introduced to distinguish the Celtic language of Ireland from the closely-related Scottish Gaelic (compare earlier Scots Gaelic n., Scotch Gaelic n., and later Scottish Gaelic n.). Compare earlier Irish Celtic n. and adj. The preferred name of the language in Ireland and in technical use is now Irish (compare sense B. 2a and also sense A. 3a).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Goidelic > Irish Irisha1387 Scottish-Irish1635 Irish Celtic1759 Gaelic1773 Irish Gaelic1778 Gaeilge1906 1778 W. Shaw Anal. Galic Lang. Introd. p. xviii The Scots and Irish Galic, though not radically different, are two separate dialects of the same language. 1878 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Ireland 72 This is a form of the plural rather rare in Irish Gaelic, but frequent in Welsh. 1988 N. C. Dorian in C. B. Paulston Internat. Handbk. Bilingualism & Bilingual Educ. vi. 110 No generally valid statement can be made about the mutual intelligibility of Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. 2009 Republican (Springfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 28 Nov. b1 Scripture readings will be read in Irish Gaelic by center members.., and the ‘Our Father’ will be recited in Irish. < as lemmas |
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