Old Irish - Grammar

Section I: Translation Exercises - Lessons 31-35

Translate the sentence

Question 1:

Día tías isin cath nom-géntar cosnaib claidbib géraib.

Glossary

ad-cí ‘sees’
ainm ‘name’
aire ‘nobleman’
ara n- conjunction ‘in order that, to’
ásaid ‘grows’
as-beir (fri) ‘says (to)’
at-tá substantive verb ‘to be’, dependent form = -fil
beirid ‘bears, carries’
ben ‘woman, wife’
benaid ‘strikes, wounds’
berraid ‘shears’
biad ‘food’
bir ‘spit’
bith ‘world’
bratt ‘mantle’
bríathar ‘word’
Bricriu personal name
brithem ‘judge’
buiden ‘band’
cath ‘battle’
cathair ‘settlement, citadel’
céile ‘companion’
ceni negative of ce, cia ‘although’ = ‘although not’
cennaige ‘merchant’
cethramad ‘fourth’
cía ‘although’
cin ‘sin, fault, crime’
claideb ‘sword’
cland ‘family’
co preposition ‘to’
co n- preposition ‘with’
cóir ‘just’
comalnaithir ‘fulfills’
Conchobar personal name
con-scair ‘destroys’
crann ‘tree’
crenaid ‘buys’
daltae ‘pupil’
dán ‘poem’
deg- ‘good’
Día ‘God’
día n- ‘when’ (if followed by past tense)
dliged ‘law’
do preposition ‘to, for’
do-beir ‘gives, brings’
do-gní ‘makes, does’
do-icc ‘comes’
druí ‘druid’
duine ‘person´ (pl. doíni)
dún ‘fort’
(h)é ‘they’
ech ‘horse’
fer ‘man’
fér ‘grass’
fid ‘wood’
file ‘poet, man of learning’
fín ‘wine’
fochaide ‘tribulation, trouble’
fo-gaib ‘gets, finds’
foilsiugud verbal noun of foilsigidir ‘reveals’
follamnugud verbal noun of follamnaigidir ‘rules’
folt ‘hair’
for preposition ‘on, upon’
fortacht ‘help, assistance’
fris-gair ‘answers’
gabál verbal noun of gaibid ‘takes’, also ‘sings’
galar ‘disease’
gataige ‘thief’
gér ‘sharp’
gleó ‘battle’
gonaid ‘wounds’
guided ‘prays to, beseeches’
í deictic particle
i n- preposition ‘in, into’
íarum ‘afterwards, then’
íasc ‘fish’
íccaid ‘heals’
ifernach ‘hellish’, i.e. ‘in hell’ from ifern ‘hell’
in n- interrogative particle
indeb ‘wealth’
ingen ‘girl, daughter’
inis ‘island’
innád n- interrogative particle (negative)
labraithir (fri) ‘speaks (to)’
láech ‘hero, warrior’
lebor ‘book’
légaid ‘reads’
léicid ‘leaves, releases’
lethan ‘broad’
lingid ‘jumps’
long ‘ship’
macc ‘boy, son’
maith ‘good’
maithes ‘goodness’
mani negative of ma ‘if’ = ‘if not’
mag ‘plain’
marb ‘dead’
medón ‘middle’
molad verbal noun of molaid ‘praises’
mór ‘big, great’
múr ‘rampart, wall’
nathó ‘no’
ní negative particle
notaire ‘scribe’
ó preposition ‘from’
óc, oac ‘young’
oc preposition ‘at’, also used with verbal nouns
olc ‘bad’
raided (fri) ‘speaks, says (to)’
recht ‘law’
rígain ‘queen’
ríge ‘kingship’
ro-cluinethar ‘hears’
rún ‘secret, mystery’
sacart ‘priest’
salm ‘psalm’
secht ‘seven’
sechtmad ‘seventh’
síd ‘otherworld mound’
sin ‘that’
so ‘this’
suidigidir ‘puts, places’
sund ‘here’
talam ‘earth’
tan ‘time’, conjunction in tan ‘when’
tech ‘house’
techtaire ‘messenger’
téit ‘goes’
tempul ‘temple’
teóra ‘three’ (fem.)
túath ‘people, territory’
tuidecht verbal noun of do-tét ‘comes’
uisce ‘water’
Ulaid territorial name ‘Ulster, Ulstermen’