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Irish
Pronunciation
Conjunction
gidh go
- Ulster form of cé go (“although”)
Quotations
1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:Níor shiubhal sé i bhfad go bhfacaidh sé páirc mhór ⁊ mórán eallaigh innti, ⁊ thug sé fa deara go robh na heallaigh lom, bocht, gan feoil, gidh go robh an féar suas go dtí na hadharca orra.- He proceeded not far when he saw a large field and many cattle in it, and he remarked that they were poor, lean, and fleshless, although the grass reached to their horns.
References
- ^ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979) Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 265
Further reading
- “gidh go”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy