Dáltha an scéil:

I've been learning about 25 different things on average (words, grammar, idioms), that are utterly new to me in each part of this story. So, when I finish with Cuid a Sé this week, I'll have learnt a little over 150 new things from this story so far! Needless to say, I'm really getting a lot out of this!

I should be starting Cuid a Seacht by the end of this week, le cúnamh na ndéithe.

So, I'm wrapping up Cuid a Sé to-day and I noticed a few typos in the notes:

On page 20, at the end of the section that starts off with, "An chruach mhór olla", the last sentence should say:
Also note that Olann [with 2 "n"s] has the irregular genitive Olla.

The sentence that is right before it should say:
Genitives of nouns used as adjectives are not …

The first sentence of number 2 should say:
2. The sentence that is found in the story is D'fhéach sí i dtreo na háite 'nar cheart an chruach mhór olla ' bheith ann.
[That's the actual sentence that is found in the story.]

On page 21: If theip has a subject …

Now back to Cuid a Cúig:
On page 19, in the section that starts off with "Gan oiread agus", there are still 2 periods after "Without so much as"

Also, on page 19: in the section that starts with "Téagartha", the word should be spelled Cómhthéagartha.

Sin a bhfuil agam.

Okay, I started Cuid a Seacht to-day and I didn't find very many typos in the notes.

On page 22, there should be a space between the Irish words and the English translations for these ones:
Le cíoradh to be combed
Le slámadh to be carded
Le sníomh to be spun
Le tochrais to be wound [by the way, I've been learning all forms of this word with "up" added to it, so that don't get it confused (in my own personal notes) with the word "wound" which means "injury" – so in this case, I've been memorizing Le tochrais as "to be wound up", tochraiste as "wound up", etc.]

That's it; I didn't see any more typos.

Cuid a Seacht wasn't too bad because a lot of the things that I already learnt in previous sections, were also in this section – thanks for the reminders in the notes, by the way!

I've only got a couple of easy questions:

Ní raibh sí i bhfad ag obair nuair a hoscladh an doras, agus bhuail chúithi isteach bean agus caipín a clóca amach ar a ceann di.
I'm thinking that caipín a clóca means "the hood of her cloak". If I'm right about that, why isn't the article an there before caipín? Is the article usually left out in cases like this?

And in the next sentence:… sháigh sí a dhá láimh san olann … – Why is it a dhá láimh instead of a dá láimh? I thought there wouldn't be any séimhiú when you say "her two hands".

I understood everything else pretty well except for those 2 things.

Possessive pronouns are treated the same as the article, so just as you can't have an caipín an chlóca* in Irish, you can't have the article in front of caipín a clóca.


Possessive pronouns ignore numbers and affect the main noun only.

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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 appreciate the help!

Thanks! I've corrected the notes and included a bit on lenition and eclipses with dhá.
Some of the extinct dialects (Roscommon, Leitrim) did say a ndá fhuinneoig rather than a dhá bhfuinneoig for their two windows, e.t.c. Does Donegal Irish do this today actually?

I'll put up Cuid a hocht tomorrow.

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

Just being nit-picky here:
At the top of page 23, there should be a space between each comma and the word that follows it, like this:

… mo, do, a, ár, úr …

By the way, I usually see the last word spelt bhur or bhúr, but of course úr is a much more phonetic spelling. Does anybody happen to know of any dialects that pronounce the "bh" in this word? … just curious

bhur is the standardised spelling AFAIK. Munster would pronounce it "voor".

Yeah, that's what I would've thought myself, but I've only ever heard it pronounced "oor" … hmmm …

I've only ever heard úr myself, but maybe they say bhur in An Rinn.

Here's Cuid a hocht:

The notes.

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