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Saoirse
 Post subject: Re: All my Kindred
PostPosted: Tue 04 Aug 2015 11:14 pm 
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An Cionnfhaolach wrote:
Ah Niall, you know an awful lot of things, a lot more than me , put the fishing rod away
:LOL:

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 Post subject: Re: All my Kindred
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An Cionnfhaolach wrote:
NiallBeag wrote:
But ten again, I still don't speak Irish, so what would I know...?)


Ah Niall, you know an awful lot of things, a lot more than me :LOL: , put the fishing rod away :LOL:

Except that I genuinely don't speak Irish. I keep meaning to learn properly, but other things get in the way. The latest thing is moving to the islands to study high school teaching through the medium of Scottish Gaelic, so I'm particularly averse to confusing myself with Irish at the moment.

Now I'm wondering if "sliocht" is a close match to ScG "sluagh", cos that can be used in the intended manner.

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An Lon Dubh
 Post subject: Re: All my Kindred
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NiallBeag wrote:
Except that I genuinely don't speak Irish. I keep meaning to learn properly, but other things get in the way. The latest thing is moving to the islands to study high school teaching through the medium of Scottish Gaelic, so I'm particularly averse to confusing myself with Irish at the moment.

Now I'm wondering if "sliocht" is a close match to ScG "sluagh", cos that can be used in the intended manner.

Sluagh is probably related to slua, meaning army or large group.

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An Lon Dubh
 Post subject: Re: All my Kindred
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On a silly note, Kindred always makes me think of Vampire the Masquerade.

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 Post subject: Re: All my Kindred
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An Lon Dubh wrote:
On a silly note, Kindred always makes me think of Vampire the Masquerade.
Still doesn't beat your comment here - viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3208&p=29398&hilit=space+time+continuum+love#p29398 :mrgreen:

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Saoirse wrote:
Still doesn't beat your comment here - viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3208&p=29398&hilit=space+time+continuum+love#p29398 :mrgreen:

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Likewise, sliocht is figuratively used very similarly to síol in the sense of progeny, descendant. sept.

As in: Sliocht sleachta ar shliocht bhur sleachta :LOL:

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Actually, revisiting the OP's original post, I think m'fhine may be a better option for my kin, as muintir is very much all encompassing. You don't have to be related to be considered as part of someone's muintir. That's just splitting hairs though!


Good point. You might even limit it further to close relatives with dearbhfhine.

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CaoimhínSF wrote:
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Likewise, sliocht is figuratively used very similarly to síol in the sense of progeny, descendant. sept.

As in: Sliocht sleachta ar shliocht bhur sleachta :LOL:

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Actually, revisiting the OP's original post, I think m'fhine may be a better option for my kin, as muintir is very much all encompassing. You don't have to be related to be considered as part of someone's muintir. That's just splitting hairs though!


Good point. You might even limit it further to close relatives with dearbhfhine.


And then there's always mo ghaolta

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And then there's always mo ghaolta

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:yes: ... which was suggested in the fourth post into this thread. ;)

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