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* <span style="color: #008000;">cil-onaidh</span> (« colony?) | * <span style="color: #008000;">cil-onaidh</span> (« colony?) | ||
| − | * <span style="color: #008000;">duf (« duff (pudding)); <span style="color: #008000;">tuigidh tu fhéin duf</span> [dəf] | + | * <span style="color: #008000;">duf</span> (« duff (pudding)); <span style="color: #008000;">tuigidh tu fhéin duf</span> [dəf] |
| − | * <span style="color: #008000;">tuf (« tough); <span style="color: #008000;">tha mi tuf</span> | + | * <span style="color: #008000;">tuf</span> (« tough); <span style="color: #008000;">tha mi tuf</span> |
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Mùthadh on 12:46, 10 dhen Lùnastal 2015
Funny stuff happens to words when they're borrowed from one language to another. Like when English borrowed the word Ersatz which in German has no negative connotations but in English usually refers to something inferior.
Gaelic does that too but for some reason, it seems to give many loanwords a rather dramatic twist. At this stage, I'm not going to comment on why and how and I'm simply going to start collecting a list of them. If there's any missing, feel free to drop me a line!
Often these are characterised by odd stress placement or sounds (from the Gaelic point of view of course), so they're quite easy to pick out. Harder to explain, semantically.
- cil-onaidh (« colony?)
- duf (« duff (pudding)); tuigidh tu fhéin duf [dəf]
- tuf (« tough); tha mi tuf
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