Leaving aside the an-te, an-an-te and an-an-an-te etc!

When speaking about temperature/weather, I am wondering what are commonly used words to go from sweltering to freezing. I am looking for the most natural way to express the heat - or lack of it.

Tá sé brothallach? (it is sweltering)
Tá sé te (it is hot)
It is warm?
It is mild?
It is cool?
Tá sé fuar (it is cold)
It is freezing cold?

I have been surviving on things like an-te, beagánín fuar etc. and I think it is time to expand the vocab on this given that when we are not talking about the recession or house prices in Ireland, we talk about the weather.

Grma roimh ré.

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for warm - I've found brothallach and brothaill
for mild - séimh
for cool - fionnuar
for freezing - préachta and conáilte
in Pota Focal - but I don't know how appropriate they are

Grma, a fhranc. Tá 'tá mé préachta leis an bhfuacht' ar eolas agam. An féidir leat 'tá sé préáchta' a rá meaning ' it is freezing' as in 'the weather is freezing'?

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Tá wombat ag obair i leantóir* sealadach na laethanta seo, ag tá sí ag leá! Bíonn sé deas faoin spéir ach 28-30 céim (Celsius) isteach an cuid is mó den am.

Ar aon chaoi, seo frasa aimsire eile: "Tá an ghrian ag spalpadh ar na clocha."

* Níl mé cinnte an focal ceart é. Tá mé ag caint faoi the sort of trailer used as a temporary building.

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I think there is: Tá an ghrian ag spealpadh na gcloch but I have only ever heard spealpadh- ag spealpadh Gaolainne- Is that what you meant when you said spalpadh?

The sun is splitting/ parting the stones- this is the usual way its written:

Tá 'n ghrian ag scoilteadh/ scaradh na gcloch

But spallú could work too- as spallú means spalling.

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Tá an ghrian ag spalpadh (busting forth) is what you'll find in the textbooks and in FGB.

Tá 'n ghrian ag scoilteadh na gclocha.

That is a common idiom in Conamara.

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Must have had different textbooks , never heard of it using spalpadh,just intrigued about it.



That's what I had as well but a quick look on focal.ie and na gcloch is the standard.

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