Celtic Word Game

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-03, 12:18

ciaran1212 wrote:glic does mean 'intelligent', 'clever', 'shrewd' or 'devious'. 'Cute' is what we say in Hiberno-English for 'crafty' or 'devious', so that's probably where you go 'cute' from. 'Cute' in the conventional sense is 'gleoite' as Gaeilge.

That is quite possible, because on the Irish->English side of my dictionary it has "cleaver; shrewd; cunning" as the definition of glic.
It also does have "neat, pretty; charming" for gleoite. My mistake for not double-checking.

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby linguoboy » 2012-06-03, 16:05

[flag]ga[/flag] mearbhall
confusion
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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ceid donn » 2012-06-03, 18:30

[flag]gd[/flag] bùrach
mess, disorder

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby linguoboy » 2012-06-03, 20:07

[flag]cy[/flag] bwrw
cast, throw down, pitch
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Re: Celtic word game

Postby MillMaths » 2012-06-03, 20:10

[flag]br[/flag] saezh
arrow

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-03, 20:49

[flag]ga[/flag] luchóg
mouse (computer)

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ceid donn » 2012-06-03, 22:11

[flag]br[/flag] klikañ
to click

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-03, 22:42

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application, program (computer)

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ffrench » 2012-06-04, 0:04

[flag]gv[/flag] co-earrooder
computer

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ceid donn » 2012-06-04, 0:08

[flag]br[/flag] preizherien
hackers, pirates

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Re: Celtic Word Game

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computer

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ceid donn » 2012-06-04, 0:12

[flag]br[/flag] kenrouedad
internet

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-04, 10:44

[flag]ga[/flag] léitheoir gréasáin
web browser

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ffrench » 2012-06-04, 11:49

[flag]gd[/flag] damhan-allaidh
spider

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-04, 12:07

Aw, we're done with the tech talk. :doggy:

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bite (noun)

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby linguoboy » 2012-06-04, 12:29

księżycowy wrote:Aw, we're done with the tech talk.

Here you are: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/focloiri/abhair/riomhaire.html. Bain sult as!

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby ffrench » 2012-06-04, 12:39

[flag]gv[/flag] yn Eayst
moon

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-04, 15:21

linguoboy wrote:Here you are: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/focloiri/abhair/riomhaire.html. Bain sult as!

Actually, that's where I was finding the terms for the game here. :lol:

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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby linguoboy » 2012-06-04, 16:17

[flag]cy[/flag] slumyn
bat [i.e. chiropteran]
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Re: Celtic Word Game

Postby księżycowy » 2012-06-04, 16:24

[flag]ga[/flag] vaimpir
vampire


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