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* ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | * ''admhaigh'' 'to acknowledge' is also used for 'to thank' (with the dative preposition ''do'' for the person who is thanked), like Hebrew הודה ''hoda'' 'to acknowledge; to thank'. (Some say this is a natural development of the sense 'to acknowledge the receipt of'.). ''Admháil duit'' is a common synonym of ''go raibh maith agat''. | ||
Today, Cualand Irish is written in a much | Today, Cualand Irish is written in a much shallower orthography, introduced by Alastair Mac Léivigh, based on similar principles to Cyrillic. The older orthography, identical to our post-reform Irish orthography but written in Gaelic type, was used in Ádhamh Binn-Fíona's times. | ||
(*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | (*) At times even more so, reflecting a time when CF-Trician Tsarfati Jews considered literary Irish (rather than Ăn Yidiș) to be their secular alternative to literary Hebrew. (A typical pre-modern Cualand Tsarfati household often had a Hebrew-English-Irish trilingual siddur.) When they wrote in Irish they sometimes wrote in a way that sounded fancy to them. | ||