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air 18 air ban
air (cont.)
Na'ru faighinn am fear a tha air cball oirbh,
if I should find the man that is lost PROM you,
[if translated here BY yov , it implies that
"you '
lost the man, which may not be true]
theich eorm, he fed AWAY FROM me ; chluich
e an cleas orm, he played the trick ON me; cheil
e ari gnotbacb orm. he hid the matter FROM me;
gnaireorm, he 'laughed AT me ; ni mi sgeul
ort, / will make a tale (inform) AGAINST you ;
dh'ith ear n-ia.sg pirnn,
he ate. our fish FOR
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(ON)?/. *, [i.e. in spite of us, not to oblige us.]
In the-e examples air translates dirrerently
into English in every case, but the differences
are caused by the English verbs, each of
which requires its own preposition as a complement.
Classing these under the various
meanings would hide from the learner the
fact that the Gaelic prep, has the same mean-
ing in each case adversity, adverse circumstances,
mishap, disaster, trickery suffered, &c.
Examples given by MacAlpin,'':
lomradhair do gnliocas, a report of thy wisdom
; air oeinu, on a mountain ; air sgath, for
the. sake of ; air ainin, by name ; air bheagan,
possessing little ; air an aobhar sin, for that
reason ; air mo shon-sa dheth, for my part, as
far as I am concerned; air e"ig'in, with much
ado, [with much difficulty, scarcely, hardly'} ;
air a h aon, for one, [thuit tri le Bran air a haon,
Bran, for one, killed three] ;air seachran,
astray ;air falbh, away, from home ; air uairibh,sometimes;
tha eagal air, he is afraid; tha
acras air, he is h angry; air chor, so that ; air
chor eigin, somehou' or other ; duine air chor
6igin, some person or other ; air meud 's gu
bbeil e, let it be ever so great ; [air a mheud 's
gu'n tig dhiubh, however many of them cornel;
cha d'fhuair mi ui air, I got nothing for it ; de
tha a' cur air? what is the matter with him .*
Examples from Stewart's Gaelic Grammar : :
ON, UPON air an lar, on the ground ; air an
la sin, on that day. CLAIM OF DEBT ioc
dhoinh na hheil agamort ! pay me. what thou
owtst ! cia meud a th'aig mo thighearn ort-sa?
how much owest thou unto my lord f OATH
air in'fhacal, upon my word ; air laimh t'athair's
do sheanair. by the hand of your father
and graridfather; [air na cbunnaic thu riamh
na fosgail e, for the sake of all you everlsaw do
not vpen it.] (Thig air) SPEAK or
TREAT OF thig mo bheul air do cbeartas is
air do cbliu, my mouth yhall speak of thy justice
ami thy ; sin
praise
cuis air a bheil mi nis
a' teachd, that is a m.aiter of which 1 am now
to treat ; tog ort \ route, I thyself chaidh agam
air,/ over
-prevailed him;'s ann orms' a chaidh,
it /.< / rhat teas " orated. Thug e am monadh
air, h? betook himoflf to the mountain. IN
KKSPKCT OF cha'n fhaca mi an samhuil air
/ never mw their like for badness air a
;
lug hart, however small it. be. JOINED WITH,
ACCOMPANIED BY m6ran iaruinn air bheag
faobhar, much iron with little edge ; oidhche
~bha mi 'n a theach air inhoran biilli 's air
bbeaganaodaich, / was a nijht in his house
with plenty of food but scanty clothing ; air
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le h
lamih, having but one hand. MKASVRE,
DIMENSION dm throidh air airde, two feet in
height. Al/TEBNATI N ulc air mhath leat e,
whether you take it well or ill.
Examples from Armstrong :
Air choir, nobly, properly, as usual [truth-
fully] ; air seo,upon this, then; air iomrall, attray
air ; chuthach, mad air ; neo, else, or
tlte ; air muiu, on, upon, above , chaidh e air
a main, he had carnal connection with her ;
bithidh sin air bhuil, that will come to mu*.
Addition ion I :
'Nuair a thig air duine thig air uile, ihi
means that fortunes and misfortunes do not
come singly, and is a Gaelic equivalent of it
never rains but it pours ; tha a' mhisg air,
he it drunk; cha'n 'eilairach , there it nothing
for it. but. Chaidh e air chttlidh orra,
he went to visit them; air torradh, at a funeral;
air banais, at a wedding ; air a lughad i*
fheairrd, the smaller the better; bha e air mo
mhuin gu'n