Thanks Bríd, you've been a lot of help! I think I'm starting to understand the little difference between chuile and chaon. Hopefully I can encounter it some more while reading.

Also, as to graithe/gra, it appears they're the same word. I decided to take a look in Learning Irish for it, and O'Siadhail has it spelled "gnaithe" (why he doesn't stick 100% consistently to dialectal spelling or the Caighdeán, I don't know!) but has it pronounced as gra. So I say that's probably the more natural way, with gnó and gnóthach coming under the force of the standard.

I'm glad I was able to help.

Don't worry about the chuile and chaon. There isn't much difference in meaning.

I actually just wanted to follow up, in case someone else ever has the question. O'Siadhail mentions both of them, as well as gach (though it comes after the other two in the lessons!), and he has them translated as:

chuile = every
chaon = each of, every


I also decided to check in An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Chonamara to see if they had anything. Here's what they had (Section 7.7):

Yeah, it's éigint in Kerry and most of Cork. Éigin is specific to Cúil Aodh and Baile Bhuirne. I think on Wagner's maps of the dialects éigin was pretty rare.


At least in Munster its used only in fixed phrases like "sa ló", "de ló".

Actually if anybody is interested, you basically formed the dative of masculine nouns in Classical Irish by changing the last vowel to an o/u.

lá -> ló
ceann -> cionn
fear -> fior


The standard is essentially a mix of Cork/Clare Irish and Classical Irish, not that that makes any sense.

_________________
The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

aye, gn, cn, mn, tn etc have the n sound only in parts of Munster (and in only one place in Scotland afaik). In the rest of the Gaelic-speaking world, that n is pronounced r.

COncering "péin", isn't it restricted to the cases where "féin" stands after a labial sound, like "sibh féin" (sip péin) etc ? I know "pèin" also exists in Scotland after "sibh".
I've not studied this in particular, but "mé péin" or "agat péin", for instance, sound weird to me.

_________________
Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne