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Irish
Pronunciation
Preposition
de gheall ar (plus dative, triggers no mutation in general references but lenition in qualified or particularized references)
- for the sake of
- disposed to, intending to; (predicated with a form of bí (“to be”)) to want, to like
1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 53:tα: ʃɛ ə jαL erʹ αm ə wiNʹtʹ əs- [tá sé de gheall ar am a bhaint as]
- he wants to waste time
- (literally, “he is disposed to wasting time”)
Nʹi:lʹ mʹə ə jαL erʹ- [níl mé de gheall air]
- I do not like it
- (literally, “I am not disposed to it”)
Nʹi:lʹ mʹɛ ə jαL erʹ ə ꬶɔLʹ ʃerʹ- [níl mé de gheall ar a dhul soir]
- I do not want to go over
- (literally, “I am not disposed to going over”)