I'm looking for the most idiomatic way to say "miss (i.e. feel the lack of) somebody" in Munster dialect. De Bhaldraithe gives: Airím uaim, mothaím uaim, crothnaím (duine).

In Munster, airigh seems to be used mainly if not exclusively to mean "hear", whereas mothaigh is more often used in the sense of "feel". I did find a few examples of mhothaíos uaim thú in Munster texts, but not many. Dinneen gives in addition to this "do mhothuigheas amuigh é, I noticed his absence" but I haven't found any recent examples. He labels crothnaím (i.e. crothnuighim) an Ulster form.

Éinní agaibh le rá, a chairde?

There's also braithim uaim . There are a few Munstermen here, who should be able to answer you when they see your post. My own background is Donegal, so I wouldn't presume to suggest anything (yes, cronaím is definitely the Donegal=Ulster version).

I had a look in the Cork-Irish dictionary and couldn't find an example.

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Do they use "Tá cumha orm i do dhiaidh" in Munster, or is that more of an Ulster thing?

When I was in the Gaeltacht, I was told airigh uaim as the way to say it. This was in Carraroe, but my teacher was from Spiddal. Bríd is better equipped to say definitively.

Basically, the sense of how to say 'I miss' is to say 'I feel from me'

Sin í an chéad áit a chuardaíos. Ach casadh sampla de mhothaíos uaim liom anso: http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/27/oruairc_micheal.html.

Another way to say "I miss you" is:

Is fada liom uaim thú.

But I don't know if that is used in Munster or not.


PS: Since you are after the Munster form in particular, I've added "(GM)" to the title.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Go raibh maith agat, a Bhreandáin. I left it off since I thought a discussion of the other variants would be useful to learners of other varieties.

I know what you mean, a Dhomhnaillín, though I think people around here are happy to throw their own dialect version in anyway.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Yes, "airigh" is used for both "listening" and "feeling".