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íomhá: an sionnach "it fucken wimdy" téacs: 'sé focan gaomhar
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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#AinmhíAnLae an luaineachán
luaineach, a1. 1. Fast-moving, nimble; restless, unsteady; changeable, vacillating, inconstant. Each ~, nimble steed. Solas ~, flickering light. Súile ~a, darting eyes. Aimsir ~, variable weather. Intinn ~, fickle mind. Baraiméadar ~, change-barometer. Go ~ ar leaba, shifting about in bed. Is ~ an duine é, he can never keep steady; he is such a weathercock. Chomh ~ le dreancaid, as jumpy as a flea. 2. Ch: Volatile. (Var: luaim(h)neach) ABAIRTÍ change » Barometer at 'change', baraiméadar m 'luaineach'. flighty » Flighty imagination, samhlaíocht luaineach. lively » As lively as a cricket, chomh luaineach le dreancaid; chomh haerach le mionnán míosa. rolling » Rolling sea, farraige bhréideach, luaineach.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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#FocalAnLae Saighneán: splanc sholais nó thintrí; rois ghaoithe; Na Saighneáin, soilse ildaite a fheictear sa spéir ó thuaidh san oíche
saighneán, m. (gs. & npl. -áin, gpl. ~). 1. (a) (Flash of) lightning. (b) Flash of light. 2. Sudden blast. ~ gaoithe, blast of wind. 3. Na Saighneáin, the Northern Lights. Ón: https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/fgb/saighne%c3%a1n
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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#FocalAnLae fúsaigh - císte beag, milseáin

Gafa le fúsaigh ⁊ leicíní bácála. Go gcuire an t-ádh dearg ar an chultúrlann
foosie New Word Suggestion a small desert or sweet/s , available near to hand hand at any time Additional Information Area of origin suspected to be the Cavan Monaghan region in the Republic of Ireland. Sentence Example: I'm just going to put out a bowl of foosies for our visitors. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/1527/foosie
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Speiceas Hyacinthus - bú (planda gairdín), buga, hiasaint

Speiceas Hyacinthoides - bú muc (planda fiáin), cloigín gorm, coinnle corra

Speiceas Muscari - bú fíniúna
Bú, Hyacinthus orientalis Blue Delft Bú muc, Hyacinthoides non-scripta Bú fíniúna, Muscari armeniacum
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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👛💶💰 bob nó bia 🍎🌰🥜
Oíche Shamhna Bob nó bia An mbeidh tú ag imirt bob nó bia i mbliana? Trick or treat Will you be trick or treating this year? [Let's Learn Irish]
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Bhí Peadar Mac Domhnaill ag smaoineamh ar móg, mogue, muga agus muga magadh i 1938 freisin
Mogue (Jersey Island) and Móg. Can this Jersey word "mogue" = (a drinking-cup) be connected with our Carlow word móg = "scoopy turnip" (Trom) = "a turnip hollowed to take a candle or simulate a head" (O Duinín p. 755). See "The Battle of the Strong" novel by Sir Gilbert Parker - Glossary at end of book. Vocabulary Although Jèrriais is occasionally misleadingly described as a mixture of Old Norse and French, it is more linguistically accurate to describe the language as Norse adapted to langue d'oïl; when Norse-speaking Normans (lit. "North-man") conquered the territory now known as Normandy, they began speaking the language of their new subjects, leading to its influence on the language. The Norman language is therefore in essence a Romance language with a certain amount of vocabulary of Norse origin, with the inclusion of later loanwords from other languages.[16] Influence of Norse Norse origins can be seen in Jèrriais words such as these: mielle (sand dune) mogue (mug) mogue Entry Discussion Citations See also: mogué Norman Alternative forms moque (continental Normandy) Etymology Borrowed from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Swedish mugg, Danish and Norwegian mugge). Pronunciation Audio (Jersey): Duration: 1 second.0:01 Noun mogue m (plural mogues) (Jersey) mug, beaker, tankard Swedish [Swedish Wikipedia has an article on: mugg] en mugg te [a mug of tea] (sense 1) Etymology Uncertain. Possibly from Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”).[1] Noun mugg c mug; a large cup hälla upp kaffe i en mug pour [up] coffee into a mug mug or cup; travel mug, children's mug (colloquial, definite form singular only) the toilet, the can
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Star móg - long winded story, usually a lying
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boreen poirín - small potatoes skep - straw hive dereen - name of field Star móg - long winded story, usually a lying pistreog - nonsense bláb = used for bubbles or blots on copies. daol = earwig that comes in on clothes from hedge in Summer.
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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M'athair: When I was a young man, living in Castletown, we had a Mummers' Band. Oh! We didn't do much except all kinds of devilment. Nothing was too hot nor too heavy for us. I was St. Patrick & wore a mitre. Another member of the Mummer's Band (ctd from p.16) Another member of the band walked on stilts with a long white garment made of four sheets. He sometimes wore a "móg" on his head. A "móg" is a scooped out turnip with holes for eyes and nose and mouth with enormous teeth. A candle can be fixed inside the móg and the result is realistic and terrifying. The Christian name Mogue is fairly common in Carlow and very much so in Wexford where it is translated MOSES. Mogue = Mo Áodh-óg (pat. saint of Ferns). There was another St. "Móg" associated with Clonmore, Co Carlow. St. "Móg's" well is there.
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Loisinnán is another word for fox in Old Irish and means ‘white-tipped one’ referencing the white tip on a fox’s tail. Interesting to note too that Crimthann, Cremthann, Crimthan or Criofan, is a masculine Irish given name meaning fox. There are quite a few kings in Ireland that had this name including Crimthann mac Fidaig, Crimthann Nia Náir and Crimthann Feimin.
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Irish is dialann, a diary. Everybody has one of these (or did have until the advent of electronic devices); but we really ought not, for the word began not just as a ghost, but as a misunderstood one (a sad spirit, as one might say). In the year 1662, when compiling a Latin-to-Irish glossary under the title Vocabularium Latinum et Hibernum, Risteard Pluincéad wished to translate into Irish the Latin word diarium, meaning provisions for a day. He therefore coined a transparent compound dia-lón (that is, dia, one of the Irish words for a day, plus lón “sustenance”), and wrote it opposite the Latin original in his list. However, when Edward Lhuyd subsequently drew upon Pluincéad’s work – then, and still, unpublished; it is manuscript Z.4.2.5 in Marsh’s Library, Dublin – he evidently understood the Latin word diarium in what had always been the other sense that it possessed. That other sense is “a diary or day book”, which Lhuyd goes on to give in his own, Irish-to-English dictionary of 1707 (referred to above) as the definition of Pluincéad’s Irish word (which he spells dialon). Crucially, citation of the Latin itself gets dropped in the process; so it is only if one is aware of Lhuyd’s use of Pluincéad that the semantic dislocation becomes apparent. Furthermore, by the time the Irish word came to be treated by the great lexicographer Patrick Dinneen one sees not only that the latter was still oblivious of the fact that a change of meaning had taken place (since he defines the word merely by repeating Lhuyd) but also that, by his time, the appropriate spelling was felt to be one that simply reflected a pronunciation /d'i:ǝlǝN/ (this indeed being how one might read out Lhuyd’s form dialon, but only if one were unconscious of its etymology). The misconceived new spelling in question, namely dialann,15 together with the mistaken definition “diary, day-book”, consequently represents all that survives of Pluincéad’s original coining in what is the most influential dictionary of Irish ever to have been published.16 However, that being uncontestedly the status of Dinneen’s work – and even though by now the true story of the word in question has long been well known17 – it is unthinkable that dialann, with its extremely useful (if historically illegitimate) current meaning, will ever now be ousted from its position as part of the basic vocabulary of modern Irish.
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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‘Scuid’ an focal is coitianta atá againn ar an ainmhí seo, ach tá ainm eile againn uirthi, mar atá ‘máthair shúigh’. Tá ‘máthair altrama’ agus ‘máthair bhaistí’ againn, ach céard is ciall le ‘súgh’, más é ‘súigh’ an ginideach? ‘Mother of Soot’ atá inti! Conas sin? Tá beagán teangeolaíochta de dhíth leis an gciall sin a mhíniú. Tosóidh muid le ‘súiche’, an focal caighdeánach ar ‘soot’. Ach tá leaganacha eile den fhocal seo ann. ‘Súgha’ is ea ceann acu, atá, nó a bhí, coitianta i ndeisceart na hÉireann. Tá ‘súgha’ le fáil mar cheannfhocal i bhfoclóir an Duinnínigh, leis an nginideach ‘súghaidh’. Mar a deir an tAthair Ua Duinnín san iontráil chéanna, is mar ‘súghaig’ a deirtear ‘súghaidh’ i gCúige Mumhan. Cuir litriú an lae inniu ar ‘súghaidh/súghaigh” agus is é ‘súigh’ atá againn, leis an bhfuaimniú ‘súig’ sa Deisceart. Voilà. Is ionann ‘máthair shúigh’ agus ‘máthair shúghaidh’ agus is ‘mother of soot’ a chiallaíonn sé.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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[tm: colgsheasamh, s. (In phrase) Ina cholgsheasamh, standing erect, bolt upright. Bhí an ghruaig ina ~ ar a cheann, his hair was standing on end.]

Colg - rinn claímh; féasóg a fhásann ar dhias eorna; buile, fearg (tháinig colg air)
Gas eorna le féasóg choilg
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Tá "moot" in úsáid ar an Oileán Mhanainn
Tornapa Hop tu Naa snoite ag Claire Christian i stíl Manann Ón: https://culturevannin.im/manxfolklore/hop-tu-naa-468995/
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Maidir lena chomhghleacaithe - an ndéarfá leis nó an ndéarfá leis go bhfuil tú ag déanamh go hiontach, a stóirín
Aidan Quinn óg cois fharraige
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Íomhá dochreidte. Aghaidh an dangerously woke left
Bábóg labubu ag caitheamh suaitheantas "Connolly don Uachtaránacht"
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Trí véarsa sa leagan seo ⁊ leagan eile as An Carn
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Íne míne maighne mó Tá na ba istigh sa chró Má tá said ag géimneach, scaoiligí leo Íne míne maighne mó Íne míne maighne mó Tá na caoirigh istigh sa chró Má tá said ag méileach, scaoiligí leo Íne míne maighne mó Íne míne maighne mó Tá na géanna istigh sa chró Má tá said ag grágalach, scaoiligí leo Íne míne maighne mó 4) Aoine Míne Maighne Mó (Eeny, meeny miny moe) Aoine, míne, maighne, mó [Eeny meeny miny moe] Tá na beithígh istigh sa chró. [The cattle are in the shed /pen] Sí Maire Bheag a chuirfear leo [It was Wee Máire who put them there] Aoine, míne, maighne, mó [Eeny míne maigne mó]
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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suaitheantas: "chaith mé mo vóta", cat lena ordóg in airde
October 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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#ÉanAnLae An fheannóg
feannóg, f. (gs. -óige, npl. ~a, gpl. ~). Grey, hooded, crow, scald-crow. ~ charrach, carrion crow. S.a. faill1 3, fód 3. ABAIRTÍ fiach » D’inis ~ é agus shéan feannóg é, there are contradictory reports about it. fiach » Ná creid feannóg agus ná creid ~, don’t rely on omens.
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Tá neamhréir ann idir an leagan Béarla agus an leagan Gaeilge den ráiteas. Maítear sa leagan Béarla go mbeidh an taisteal saor in aisce ar fáil do ‘participants’ ach sainítear sa leagan Gaeilge gur ‘amhránaithe’ amháin atá i gceist. Tá soiléiriú ar an gceist lorgtha ag Tuairisc ó Iarnród Éireann.
October 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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tm: caobach1, f. (gs. -aí, npl. ~a, gpl. ~). 1. (a) Lumpish person or thing; lout. (b) (In phrase) Bhí ~ air, he was mad drunk. 2. Orn: Blackbacked gull.
caobach2 = scaobach. #ÉanAnLae
Caobach (laris marinus) ag scréachach ón: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Larus+marinus&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&wprov=acrw1_-1&type=image
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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You're welcome and tbf that's not how alt-text works, that's not the first time Darach has misused alt-text and it is really disappointing to see people with thousands of followers misusing an accessibility tool for the lolz
Alt-text is a written description of an image or other visual content embedded within digital code. This description allows screen readers, assistive devices and software used by people who are blind or have low vision to convey the content of an image to the user. Alt-text appears in place of an image if it fails to load and provides essential information about the image’s content, purpose, and context. How Does Alt-Text Work? When a person using a screen reader encounters an image, the screen reader “reads” the alt-text aloud, allowing the user to understand what is present or important in the image. Alt-text can also be helpful for people with cognitive disabilities who benefit from descriptions, as well as for users in environments where visuals might not load (e.g., due to low bandwidth). source: https://vi.ie/alt-text-whats-in-a-description/ The content and placement of alt-text vary depending on the platform, but in most cases, alt-text is written directly into the HTML of a webpage or specified within the properties of an image on social media or other digital platforms. Screen Readers and Alt-Text Screen readers like JAWS, NVDA, and Voiceover work in conjunction with alt-text by using text-to-speech to read out the description. When a user encounters an image, they can pause to hear the alt-text description, gaining an understanding of what others see visually. This ability to interact with alt-text allows users to navigate through content and interpret its significance. source: https://vi.ie/alt-text-whats-in-a-description/
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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It is deeply unsound to misuse an accessibility tool for shits and giggles though
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Striking the Right Balance in Alt-Text Descriptions One of the challenges in creating effective alt-text is balancing the amount of information. Too little information can be vague and unhelpful, while too much can overwhelm the user, especially in dense or fast-paced online environments. Here are some guidelines on what constitutes “just right” alt-text: Too Little Information: Descriptions like “Image” or “Picture of person” don’t convey meaningful content and provide limited value. Similarly, one-word descriptions like “flower” may fail to tell the user the flower’s type, colour, or significance. Just Right: Alt-text should be specific enough to describe the image’s essential features and convey its context or purpose. For example, “Yellow sunflower in a field, with a bee on one of its petals” provides essential visual cues without unnecessary detail. Too Much Information: Lengthy descriptions such as “A high-resolution image of a yellow sunflower, taken in natural light at sunrise, with a honeybee landing on the third petal from the right” are overly detailed and can become a burden for the user to process. Screen reader users benefit from alt-text that’s concise, only containing what is necessary to understand the image’s purpose. Best Practices for Alt-Text Creation To make alt-text as helpful as possible, it’s important to follow these best practices: Be Concise: Aim to describe the image in a single sentence if possible. Focus on Context: Consider the image’s context. Describe elements relevant to the surrounding content or the message it conveys. Avoid Redundant Words: Avoid starting with phrases like “Image of…” as screen readers automatically identify content as an image. Skip Decorative Images: If an image is purely decorative and doesn’t add meaning, leave the alt-text empty. This allows screen readers to skip over it, reducing navigation time and enhancing the user’s experience. The Power of Alt-Text in an Inclusive Digital World Alt-text transforms visual media into accessible content, allowing people with sight loss and other disabilities to navigate the online world with greater ease and autonomy. Well-crafted alt-text helps to eliminate digital barriers, enriches the user experience, and makes inclusive design a reality.
October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Meabhrúchán cairdiúil, is áis inrochtaineachta é téacs malartach
bluesky post from @knilirabaj.bsky.social that says It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone. July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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'Eric-fine' - fíneáil as marú nó gortú anallód; cúiteamh; luach saothair
éiric, f. (gs. ~e, pl. ~í). ‘Eric-fine’, compensatory payment for death or injury; reparation, retribution; compensation, reward. ~ ruda a bhaint as duine, to make s.o. pay, get one’s own back on s.o., for sth. ~ a ghabháil i rud, to exact retribution for sth. Tugadh ~ a athar dó, he was recompensed for the loss of his father. Fuair sé suim airgid in ~ a chuid den talamh, he got a sum of money in lieu of his share of the land. In ~ ár bpeacaí, in reparation for our sins. In ~ na héagóra, in requital for the wrong. In ~ a shaothair, in return for his labour. In ~ a aithrí, in reward for his repentance. ón: https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/fgb/%c3%89iric
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM