amhlaidh

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish amlaid, from Old Irish samlaid (“thus, so”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adverb

amhlaidh

  1. thus, so
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13:
      is avl̄ə tā šē.
      [Is amhlaidh atá sé.]
      That’s how it is.
      (literally, “’Tis thus that it is.”)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13:
      ȷerĭm gə wil šē avl̄ə.
      [Deirim go bhfuil sé amhlaidh.]
      I say that it’s like that.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13:
      ȷ ētəx šin ə ve avl̄ə.
      [D’fhéadfadh sin a bheith amhlaidh.]
      That could be true; that could be that way

Particle

amhlaidh

  1. (used to emphasise a verb)
    Is amhlaidh a rinne sé airgead mór.
    The fact is, he made mint.
    Is amhlaidh a bhrisfeas tú an chathaoir mar sin.
    You're really going to break the chair like that.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 amlaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 68
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57

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