I need air - Eachdraidh nam mùthaidhean

Akerbeltz 13:29, 12 dhen Iuchar 2020

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Akerbeltz: /* The tricky one */

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The tricky one

Akerbeltz: /* The tricky one */

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The tricky one

Akerbeltz: /* Over/Past */

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Over/Past

Akerbeltz 11:35, 12 dhen Iuchar 2020

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Akerbeltz: Chaidh duilleag le "This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple: {| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center" |- | ..." a chruthachadh

2020-07-12T10:33:18Z

Chaidh duilleag le "This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple: {| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center" |- | ..." a chruthachadh

Duilleag ùr

This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple:
{| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center"
|-
| mi || thu || e || i || sinn || sibh || iad
|-
| orm || ort || air || oirre || oirnn || oirbh || orra
|-
| [ɔrɔm] || [ɔRʃd] || [ɛrʲ] || [ɔRə] || [ɔːRNʲ] || [ɔrʲɪv] || [ɔRə]
|-
|}

Yes, oirre and orra are pronounced the same way because there no longer a disctinction between broad and slender rr in modern Scottish Gaelic. But that's only very rarely confusing in context.

==Air, lots of air==
Unfortunately, yes. You'll most likely first meet air meaning "on" like air bòrd "on board" and be told that there's no lenition after air. Yay, you think. The you run into deich air fhichead and you just file it under it's a number, maybe a special case. Then you bump into beag air bheag and maybe it looks a bit strange but you just learn it as a phrase. But as you progress and run into air chor-eigin and air bheag airgid you begin to wonder about the "no lenition", not to mention that many of these don't really fit the translation of "on".

Your confusion is justified. What makes this so confusing is that what looks like air is actually the result of 4 different words all ending up with the same spelling. Don't worry, this isn't going to be as bad as ''[[The many functions of a]]''.

'''Work in Progress'''

@@ Loidhne 17: / Loidhne 17: @@
 Your confusion is justified. What makes this so confusing is that what looks like <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> is actually the result of 4 different words all ending up with the same spelling. Don't worry, this isn't going to be as bad as ''[[The many functions of a]]''.
-==On==
+==#1 – On==
 The easy one first. In the sense of "on", <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">for</span> (which went <span style="color: #6600CC;">form, fort, for, foir</span> etc) and didn't lenite in Old Irish either. Hence the following with no lenition (without the definite article or possessives of course):
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air bòrd</span> "on a table"
@@ Loidhne 24: / Loidhne 24: @@
 etc
-==After==
+==#2 – After==
 The next one is <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in the sense of "after". This also doesn't cause lenition and comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">íar</span>. In Old Irish, <span style="color: #6600CC;">íar</span> caused [[Nasalisation 2 or Why am I married to ə NɯNʲə agam?|nasalization]] but as that disappeared from Scottish Gaelic, we were left with it just not doing anything.
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air tuiteam</span> "after falling, having fallen"
@@ Loidhne 30: / Loidhne 30: @@
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air falbh</span> "after leaving, having left, gone, away"
-==Over/Past==
+==#3 – Over/Past==
 The last fairly simple one. This one ultimately comes from <span style="color: #008000;">thar</span> "over, past" which traditionally lenites and takes the genitive and (though not always consistently):
 * <span style="color: #008000;">thar chuantan/chuan</span> "across the ocean(s)"
@@ Loidhne 38: / Loidhne 38: @@
 Mostly you'll meet this in the form of <span style="color: #008000;">ar</span> or <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in numbers involving twenty: <span style="color: #008000;">deich ar/air fhichead</span>, so literally "10 past 20".
-==The tricky one==
+==#4 – The tricky one==
 There always is one, isn't there? So there's a fourth <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> which comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">ar</span> where it caused lenition. It covered a wide range of meanings such as "for the sake of/on behalf; because of/on account of, instead of; in exchange for; by means of/through; relating to; as a result of; in spite of". And by and large, it still covers most of these functions though many of them are now relegates to fixed phrases.

← Mùthadh nas sine		Mùthadh on 11:52, 12 dhen Iuchar 2020
Loidhne 1:		Loidhne 1:
−	~~'''Work in Progress'''~~
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	This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple:		This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple:
	{\| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center"		{\| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center"

@@ Loidhne 42: / Loidhne 42: @@
 ==The tricky one==
 There always is one, isn't there? So there's a fourth <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> which comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">ar</span> where it caused lenition. It covered a wide range of meanings such as "for the sake of/on behalf; because of/on account of, instead of; in exchange for; by means of/through; relating to; as a result of; in spite of". And by and large, it still covers most of these functions though many of them are now relegates to fixed phrases.
 ===<span style="color: #008000;">beag air bheag</span>===
-This is perhaps the most productive category (meaning you can still make new combinations of this sort). It follows a pattern of adjective/noun + <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> + lenited adjective/noun:
+This is perhaps the second most productive category (meaning you can still make new combinations of this sort). It follows a pattern of adjective/noun + <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> + lenited adjective/noun:
 * <span style="color: #008000;">mean air mhean</span> "little by little"
 * <span style="color: #008000;">beag air bheag</span> "little by little"
@@ Loidhne 55: / Loidhne 65: @@
 ===by means of===
 In the sense of "by means of/through" and "in exchange for", there are quite a few idioms that you might well hear:
-* <span style="color: #008000;">air bheag(an) airgid </span> "through little money"
+* <span style="color: #008000;">air bheag(an) airgid</span> "through little money"
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air mhòr(an) fhiachan</span> "through many debts"
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air bheag(an) eòlais</span> "by the means of a little knowledge"
 * <span style="color: #008000;">mair fhortan</span> "(in exchange) for a fortune"
-You can look at it this way - if you run into <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> and it seems a bit odd and isn't case 1, 2 or 3 above, it's most likely number 4!
+===in spite of===
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@@ Loidhne 43: / Loidhne 43: @@
 There always is one, isn't there? So there's a fourth <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> which comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">ar</span> where it caused lenition. It covered a wide range of meanings such as "for the sake of/on behalf; because of/on account of, instead of; in exchange for; by means of/through; relating to; as a result of; in spite of". And by and large, it still covers most of these functions though many of them are now relegates to fixed phrases.
-===Beag air bheag===
+===<span style="color: #008000;">beag air bheag</span>===
 This is perhaps the most productive category (meaning you can still make new combinations of this sort). It follows a pattern of adjective/noun + <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> + lenited adjective/noun:
 * <span style="color: #008000;">mean air mhean</span> "little by little"
@@ Loidhne 50: / Loidhne 50: @@
 * <span style="color: #008000;">pìos air phìos</span> "piece by piece"
-===<span style="color: #008000;">air chor-eigin</span>===
+===or other===
 This category has exactly one member: <span style="color: #008000;">air chor-eigin</span> (if you count dialect forms like <span style="color: #008000;">air chor-eiginich</span> as being the same word really).
@@ Loidhne 59: / Loidhne 59: @@
 * <span style="color: #008000;">air bheag(an) eòlais</span> "by the means of a little knowledge"
 * <span style="color: #008000;">mair fhortan</span> "(in exchange) for a fortune"
 You can look at it this way - if you run into <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> and it seems a bit odd and isn't case 1, 2 or 3 above, it's most likely number 4!
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← Mùthadh nas sine		Mùthadh on 11:35, 12 dhen Iuchar 2020
Loidhne 39:		Loidhne 39:

	Mostly you'll meet this in the form of <span style="color: #008000;">ar</span> or <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in numbers involving twenty: <span style="color: #008000;">deich ar/air fhichead</span>, so literally "10 past 20".		Mostly you'll meet this in the form of <span style="color: #008000;">ar</span> or <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in numbers involving twenty: <span style="color: #008000;">deich ar/air fhichead</span>, so literally "10 past 20".
−

	==The tricky one==		==The tricky one==

@@ Loidhne 1: / Loidhne 1: @@
 This preposition is both simple and annoying. Let's start with the simple:
 {| style="width: 60%;" border="0" align="center"
@@ Loidhne 17: / Loidhne 19: @@
 Your confusion is justified. What makes this so confusing is that what looks like <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> is actually the result of 4 different words all ending up with the same spelling. Don't worry, this isn't going to be as bad as ''[[The many functions of a]]''.
 ==On==
 The easy one first. In the sense of "on", <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">for</span> (which went <span style="color: #6600CC;">form, fort, for, foir</span> etc) and didn't lenite in Old Irish either. Hence the following with no lenition (without the definite article or possessives of course):
@@ Loidhne 41: / Loidhne 42: @@
 ==The tricky one==
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← Mùthadh nas sine		Mùthadh on 11:18, 12 dhen Iuchar 2020
Loidhne 18:		Loidhne 18:

	'''Work in Progress'''		'''Work in Progress'''
		+	==On==
		+	The easy one first. In the sense of "on", <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">for</span> (which went <span style="color: #6600CC;">form, fort, for, foir</span> etc) and didn't lenite in Old Irish either. Hence the following with no lenition (without the definite article or possessives of course):
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air bòrd</span> "on a table"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air ceann</span> "on a head"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air màthraichean</span> "on mothers"
		+	etc
		+
		+	==After==
		+	The next one is <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in the sense of "after". This also doesn't cause lenition and comes from Old Irish <span style="color: #6600CC;">íar</span>. In Old Irish, <span style="color: #6600CC;">íar</span> caused [[Nasalisation 2 or Why am I married to ə NɯNʲə agam?\|nasalization]] but as that disappeared from Scottish Gaelic, we were left with it just not doing anything.
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air tuiteam</span> "after falling, having fallen"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air bruidhinn</span> "after speaking, having spoken"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">air falbh</span> "after leaving, having left, gone, away"
		+
		+	==Over/Past==
		+	The last fairly simple one. This one ultimately comes from <span style="color: #008000;">thar</span> "over, past" which traditionally lenites and takes the genitive and (though not always consistently):
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">thar chuantan/chuan</span> "across the ocean(s)"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">thar cheann</span> "altogether, on average"
		+	* <span style="color: #008000;">thar bheann</span> "over the mountains" (i.e. the other side)
		+
		+	Mostly you'll meet this in the form of <span style="color: #008000;">ar</span> or <span style="color: #008000;">air</span> in numbers involving twenty: <span style="color: #008000;">deich ar/air fhichead</span>, so literally "10 past 20".
		+
		+
		+	==The tricky one==
		+
		+	<br />
		+	<br />
		+	{{Teamplaid:Roimhearan}}