How to PRONOUNCE ECLIPSIS/URÚ in Irish and WHY we use it!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 янв 2025

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  • @Audifan8595
    @Audifan8595 Год назад +5

    Ohhh so this is basically like how in English 'a' becomes 'an' when the next word starts with a vowel sound! GRMA, this lesson made it very clear!

    • @jaycee330
      @jaycee330 7 месяцев назад

      And intrusive "r" is a sort of eclipsis as well.

  • @awkward-stranger
    @awkward-stranger 4 года назад +27

    You are such a great teacher. You have that blessing. Please don't disappear. I learn pretty well with your teaching. Thank YOU💚

    •  4 года назад +3

      Aw go raibh maith agat 😊 is duine an-chineálta thú 💚

  • @johnmccann6108
    @johnmccann6108 2 года назад +1

    Best brief explanation of eclipsis I have seen. Most explanations are correct but ignore why it is done.

  • @fiedelmina
    @fiedelmina 4 года назад +6

    hey this is so cool. In Swiss German we use "Göppel" as a slang word for horse (or bicycle). Apparently it's similar to the Irish word for "horse" when it has it's "uru".

  • @peachysparkles
    @peachysparkles 2 года назад +3

    DUUUUDE this is exactly what I needed! I have an Irish book that talks about this but I had no idea what it was trying to say about the pronunciation even with the examples. I kept trying to figure it out but I was still so confused. Thanks a lot for your explanation!!! ✨😃👏✨

  • @sheilacleary7200
    @sheilacleary7200 3 года назад +4

    As a beginner, discovering the urú and séimhiú variations on words was a frustration. Your explanation of how the processes adds flow and beauty to the language makes learning them enjoyable. Great work! Go raibh maith agat!

  • @ceapaire8286
    @ceapaire8286 4 года назад +17

    I'm from the north and never had an opportunity to learn Irish in school, thank you so much for this series it's really helping xx

    •  4 года назад +3

      Fáilte romhat 😊💚

  • @matthewj0429
    @matthewj0429 2 года назад +2

    Go raibh maith agat! Your videos really help me! I've been learning Irish for a month now and your videos are such an encouragement!

  • @eloyrodriguez6460
    @eloyrodriguez6460 4 года назад +4

    Once again greetings from Corpus Christi Texas🍀 And once again OutStanding video👍👍

  • @jacdixie
    @jacdixie 4 года назад +2

    Dia dhuit from Louisiana! I've been working on my Irish since last February, and channels like yours make the experience much less daunting. I was working on an exercise and the sentence "Tá gúnaí ag an mbean agus ag an gcailín" came up. I realized I didn't quite know how to pronounce "mbean," but I know now! Go raibh maith agat.

  • @ryanmccauley8568
    @ryanmccauley8568 4 года назад +2

    My second day of learning Irish and I’ve watch all your videos already lol

  • @martinkullberg6718
    @martinkullberg6718 Год назад

    This is very interessant, it indeed makes an already beautifull language more beautifull! 😮😁

  • @KC-wi4gh
    @KC-wi4gh 4 года назад +2

    I have been trying to learn this and I just noticed this video . I find it hard to get my head around it but you are very good at explaining it. Your video is very helpful .Go raibh maith agat Molly.

  • @davidnguyen7272
    @davidnguyen7272 4 года назад +5

    I have studied several languages to an intermediate level and it's interesting that this effect/rule is actually really common in other languages however I cant think of any other that actually change the spelling to accommodate it

  • @heavenlyboy34
    @heavenlyboy34 Год назад

    GRMA! Your videos are a great supplement for my Gaelige class. :)

  • @amherst88
    @amherst88 4 года назад +5

    Go raibh mile maith agat! I studied Irish at university in the US and Urú was always a total mystery though I thought it probably had something to do with trying to render the oral language in an alphabet -- and you have answered that question for me ❤️ -- love your videos -- keep 'em coming :)

  • @serviustullus7204
    @serviustullus7204 8 месяцев назад

    The androgynous dubs! Love it. A really nice touch.

  • @pompikaushal4604
    @pompikaushal4604 4 года назад +5

    Dia dhuit Molly! Another great video,really liked it! You are doing a good job! I badly needed another video on "Urú" which you uploaded and I liked it! Thaitin an físeán go mór leat!
    Go raibh maith agat agus slán go fóill!

    •  4 года назад +2

      Go raibh maith agat 😊

  • @lukereland4290
    @lukereland4290 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for your advice. Beautiful language and also a beautiful lady..

  • @galwaytribesman9289
    @galwaytribesman9289 3 года назад

    Up Donegal and Galway. My mum is from Donegal. Both counties having Gaeltacht regions

  • @jerryosue7969
    @jerryosue7969 2 года назад

    Representing Ulster dialect 💚

  • @latharna67
    @latharna67 4 месяца назад

    Now it makes sense.
    Starting again to learn our native Gaelige wirh Duolingo...going very well.
    Slán go fóill.

  • @jericohen120
    @jericohen120 4 года назад +1

    Your lessons bring clear understanding to the structure of Irish. A huge Thank You from NY!
    JeriGale Cohen Fitzgibbon Shane

  • @catherinewalsh3083
    @catherinewalsh3083 Год назад

    Thanks ❤

  • @nicholasverellen8279
    @nicholasverellen8279 4 года назад +9

    Does your whole family speak Irish and if so do you all use it daily or occasionally?

    •  4 года назад +9

      Naw they all learned it at school but can’t remember much

    • @nicholasverellen8279
      @nicholasverellen8279 4 года назад +2

      Gaeilge i mo chroí That seems to be how it is in Ireland 😳😁

    •  4 года назад +13

      Nicholas Verellen I speak with my dad sometimes. My family very much appreciate the Irish language, it’s just difficult if you’re not a language lover like I am or other people on here, to keep it up

  • @efthimiosmakris3476
    @efthimiosmakris3476 4 года назад

    Hi Molly very many thanks for the very useful video.Could you please make a video in the future for Particles,I think is very important too. Many thanks once again.

  • @patrickconnolly2654
    @patrickconnolly2654 Год назад

    Thought it was very informative

  • @mychoobs
    @mychoobs 4 года назад

    Fantastic explanation. Grma.

  • @moofoogee
    @moofoogee 4 года назад +1

    Hi. Just found your channel and love. I also fell in love with Ireland after visiting about 25 years ago. A question that you’ve probably been asked a 1,000 times. Do most Irish have some knowledge of the Irish language and how to use it?

  • @TreeLover-nr6ey
    @TreeLover-nr6ey 3 года назад

    We you are just the best!

  • @gojoxsanzo
    @gojoxsanzo 4 года назад +2

    Go raibh míle maith agat. I really needed some explainations on the Urú.

  • @skanthavelu
    @skanthavelu 3 года назад

    I love the Irish accent. 😍😍

  • @马丁金
    @马丁金 4 года назад

    thank you

    •  4 года назад

      You’re welcome 😁

  • @nurealam1206
    @nurealam1206 4 года назад

    THANKS A MILLION, MY PRETTY FRIEND. LOVE YOU.

  • @gaeltachtgreenville546
    @gaeltachtgreenville546 4 года назад

    Great video on the urú!

  • @tripperhiggins937
    @tripperhiggins937 3 года назад

    i love the bloopers ha.

  • @MrTimothWind
    @MrTimothWind 4 года назад

    Greetings, thanks for your lovely videos and comedy :) Sorry If this has been asked or answered previously but what movies would you recommend to watch that are in Irish to help learn the language or would you recommend any movies? Many thanks.

  • @poppypitbull
    @poppypitbull 3 года назад

    I’m a beginner at Irish.
    My main question is how do I know when to use which? When I look at an English translation and then the Irish version of a word would have two different spellings but neither seems consistent as to when it should be used.

  • @jeffsarhani9619
    @jeffsarhani9619 4 года назад

    EXCELLENT VIDEOS

    •  4 года назад +1

      Go raibh maith agat 😊

  • @simonchambers2321
    @simonchambers2321 4 года назад

    Great explanation, go raibh maith agat!

  • @Tjmce
    @Tjmce 4 года назад +1

    Go raibh míle. 😁 I know I would learn something new very helpful

  • @leoluna2956
    @leoluna2956 4 года назад

    I've been starting to learn Irish because my great grandmother immigrated from Cork to Canada waaaaay back when and I've always been so drawn to Ireland and dream of moving there someday. I just came across your videos and I love them! This helped me so much because I was so confused about why these little "random" letters kept appearing before certain words. Thank you so much!
    Also. In this video, I noticed that my hair and yours are very similar in colour and texture. :)

  • @jimmalone4309
    @jimmalone4309 4 года назад +25

    The moment you realise you've been taught Munster Irish all you life 🤣

    • @spiffokeen
      @spiffokeen 4 года назад +4

      Could you clarify something about the “bhf”?
      You said it sounds like “v”, but did it as a “vw”. Is it generally “v” but “vw” in that particular case or vowel combination, or is it generally a “vw”?

    •  4 года назад +9

      I did it like ‘vw’ because of the ‘ui’ in fuinneog- it’s pronounce fWInyoge so when you add the bh- it becomes vWinyoge. Does that make sense? 😊

    • @spiffokeen
      @spiffokeen 4 года назад +4

      Gaeilge i mo chroí Yes! Thanks for clarifying!

    • @shanemcnaoimhin233
      @shanemcnaoimhin233 4 года назад

      Agus mé féin Fresin lol

  • @Alasdair37448
    @Alasdair37448 2 года назад

    The way I understand it is that take the word mbean and essentially the m eclipses the b sound the same way the moon eclipses the sun so you no longer pronounce the b sound the b is still there to show the root word but it’s not pronounced.

    • @52power
      @52power 2 года назад

      Also, it's good to remind ourselves that it was the elites who were responsible for all the horrors inflicted on the Irish by the English. Regular Irish and English people get on quite well.

    • @wildlifewonderszs
      @wildlifewonderszs Год назад

      ​@@52powerwtf

  • @rcic3706
    @rcic3706 4 года назад

    So as I understand the urús letters become slender whereas the original consonant was slender? Till this day I has always read, say, "d-each" for "dteach", NOT "deach".

    •  4 года назад +1

      You just drop the pronunciation of the t, you don’t separate the pronunciation of the ‘d’ from the rest of the word

  • @bryan08bry4
    @bryan08bry4 4 года назад

    Hi, just came to your channel, your videos.are cool, are you from galway? Im going to visit there

    •  4 года назад +1

      No I’m from Donegal in Ulster 😊

    • @bryan08bry4
      @bryan08bry4 4 года назад

      @ maybe I could visit there too, I send you a request at your personal instagram as bryan08bry, sorry for my english

  • @jonem5772
    @jonem5772 4 года назад

    Do you have any personal channel for your daily life sharing. I will follow if so.

    •  4 года назад

      No I don’t but I would like to if I had the time 😂

  • @rcic3706
    @rcic3706 4 года назад

    What do you think about videos where you translate - and explain grammar structures by this mean - Irish songs?
    Your joke about eclipses, sun and moon reminded me of Clannad's "Theme from Harry's Game" line "Imtheochaidh an ghealach's an ghrian..."

    •  4 года назад +1

      Songs are a lot more complicated and don’t necessarily translate directly so I’m not sure about doing that

    • @rcic3706
      @rcic3706 4 года назад

      @ That's true, without a shadow of a doubt. Well, as a teenager I learned English and more recently Norwegian and some German with songs, but the material in Irish is much more scarce and complicated, I don't know whether it is a useful means to learn the language.

  • @jimcowhand1749
    @jimcowhand1749 4 года назад +1

    How do you pronounce "Ceallachain"? Kay-la-chain? Kay-la-choyn?

    • @sos_hodad
      @sos_hodad 4 года назад

      Do you mean to say Ceallacháin? It’s pronounced KYALL-uh-han. The “Ce” makes a “Ky” sound. The double ll turns the short a into a long one. In Ulster, our á’s are like “a” in “cat.” So far, it’s “Kyal.” Unstressed vowels tend to have an “uh” sound. Lastly, “cháin” is like “hand” without the “d” sound.
      KYAL uh han

  • @aarcas
    @aarcas 4 года назад

    What's your accent? My bet is on either Tyrone, Donegal, or Derry.

    •  4 года назад +1

      aarcas Donegal 😁

    • @aarcas
      @aarcas 4 года назад

      @ Thought it sounded familiar, from Strabane myself right on the border.

  • @insultigknightuscantstands4648
    @insultigknightuscantstands4648 4 года назад +3

    i think it's funny that i'm part Irish and A whole bunch of other ethnicities (including British sadly) :( and i'm learning Irish but sometimes my brother will swear at me in British and i will say an insult back at him in Irish does that sound familiar to anyone or am i overthinking with the idea that my brother and i are kinda reliving the conflict Between the Brits and the Irish i don't know but i think it's kinda funny

    • @francishholmes
      @francishholmes 4 года назад +2

      so many thousands of Irish and English families are inter-mingled that it has now become destructive to harbour anti-English/British sentiments---almost every English/British person I encounter every day in London has nothing but respect, admiration and goodwill towards Ireland and the Irish

  • @РусланЗаурбеков-з6е

    Hmm, finally I got it.
    When at the beginning I see two consonants -- first is pronounced, second is not. )))

  • @ExplorationRandomDestination
    @ExplorationRandomDestination 4 года назад

    I will learn Gaelic

  • @shanemcnaoimhin233
    @shanemcnaoimhin233 4 года назад

    Fair play leat

  • @JorgeGonzalez-vb2mv
    @JorgeGonzalez-vb2mv 4 года назад

    Keep it up

  • @Vitaee13
    @Vitaee13 4 года назад +1

    Go raibh maith agat, Molly. BTW, is there an Irish version for your name?

    •  4 года назад +2

      Mallaidh 😊

    • @Vitaee13
      @Vitaee13 4 года назад +1

      @ Mallaidh.... Is maith liom an ainm sin. Tá sé álainn.

    • @Tjmce
      @Tjmce 4 года назад

      @ lovely name how do you pronounce it. would it be malee or mallayy

  • @JustAn0therSoul
    @JustAn0therSoul 4 года назад

    What color are your eyes?

    •  4 года назад

      Blue 💙😊

    • @JustAn0therSoul
      @JustAn0therSoul 4 года назад

      @ oh cool it looked grayish-blue but i wasnt sure , i also thought green would be very fitting, because you teach irish - anyways im not going to learn irish i just got this video as a recommondation and honestly i thought you teach how to speak english with irish accent, i didnt know the irish have their own language, is the irish culture somehow connected to the celtic?

  • @KitkatandLizzard
    @KitkatandLizzard 3 года назад

    Go raibh maith agat! Bhí mé ag foghlaim le Duolingo ach tá sé níos éasca cruth an bhéil a thuiscint.

  • @amfvideos6810
    @amfvideos6810 Год назад

    I really wanna get into higher level irish so i'm studying so I can get 95% on my summer exam. I got 89% on my winter exam.

  • @thomaslecuyer768
    @thomaslecuyer768 4 года назад

    Why have you guys stopped “rolling” the “r”? I think it’s even more beautiful when the “r”s are rolled 🙃

    • @sos_hodad
      @sos_hodad 4 года назад +1

      I still do, and I pronounce the slender r as it should be as well

  • @oldtimeycabins
    @oldtimeycabins 4 года назад

    Tame go maith!

  • @seangilmartin6768
    @seangilmartin6768 4 года назад

    Go raibh maith agat! Should be learning the Ulster dialect like family who are in Béal Feirste. Seimhiu and uru no longer confuse me :)

  • @jadeperri5183
    @jadeperri5183 4 года назад

    🤯👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

  • @maceain
    @maceain 4 года назад +1

    post an mhaith eile. Is as Dún na nGall mo theaghlach. Teaghlach Mac Eáin, Glenfinn agus Halla an Phoirt. Bainim taitneamh as do chuid oibre.

    •  4 года назад

      Go raibh maith agat 😊

  • @MrCoffeypaul
    @MrCoffeypaul 4 года назад

    Go raibh maith agat, bainim taitneamh as do fhiseanna! I don't think they realised Leon is cleary Uladh chanuint!

    •  4 года назад +1

      I don’t think it’s any canúint 😂 my family say lions as well

  • @QueenB33-s3b
    @QueenB33-s3b 10 месяцев назад

    These remind me of Welsh mutations.

  • @CathalOGradaigh
    @CathalOGradaigh 4 года назад

    Go raibh mhile mhaith agat