in this video we're going to look at the makeup of certain words in the Irish language
this is going to help you get a better understanding of the language in general
let's start with this phrase here gabh mo leithscéal this just means excuse me or sorry in Irish gabh mo leithscéal
but the interesting word here is leithscéal which we're going to look at but first of all gabh means
accept mo is my and then leithscéal is excuse so that's what it means word for word but let's look
at leithscéal now in a little bit more detail so le is the first half of that word there and that
just means unusual or peculiar but this is also connected to the Irish word leath which can mean
a half so it could be unusual or it could be half there's a couple of different meanings there let's
look at the second half of that word now scéal and scale means story or an account of something
so together then leithscéal means an unusual or peculiar story or a half story just like
in English it would be an excuse so government means accept my excuse or accept my half story
or half-backed story
the next word is ardatheoir, ardatheoir is the Irish word for an elevator so this comes from
two words joining up together ard which means high or raised and then aitheoir is connected to the
Irish verb athrú which is to change so together ardaitheoir means a high or a raised change because
an elevator brings you down from a height or rises you up to a height either way it's changing the height
that you're at
the next word is forhalla this is the Irish word for a foyer so again two words here
make up this word and for means outward or expansive or big or open or extreme it
can have a number of different meanings there the Irish word for that's the first half of that word
the second half of that word is halla and that basically means hall because a foyer is an open
or a big hall that's what a foyer is in a hotel or in a County Council building or wherever
and you'll often see the word for in Irish for example mór is big but formhór is most or a
majority are extremely big
our next word is a word that we just had there at the end of the
previous sentence and that is fáilteoir is the Irish word for a receptionist and again
two words here come together to create one word the first half of that word fáilte means welcome, fáilte
and then the 2nd half of that word is eoir whenever you see that it's just putting a
profession on the preceding word so it's like a professional welcomer which is basically what a
receptionist is fáilteoir and again you'll often see this in Irish where you'll see e-o-i-r at
the end when we're talking about someone's job or profession for example a farm is feirm and
then if we put eoir at the end of it feirm+eoir come together to make a farmer Feirmeoir
our next word is cúléisteacht this means listening in or eavesdropping
cúléisteacht so the two words here come together as you can see cúl which is back as in being in a
position more further back or a reserved position and then éisteacht is listening so it literally
means listening in from a backward position like back listening cúl éisteacht
our next word is tírdhreach and this means
landscape tírdhreach so two words again come together here to make this useful word tír
which is land or country and dhreach then which means an expression a face or an exterior of some type so
it literally means the expression of the land or the expression of the countryside and in many ways
it reminds me of the Irish word tírghrá which means patriotism so tír means country grá
means love love of country is patriotism so it's a similar word a similar makeup style there as well
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