Monday, June 8, 2020

Ceolfaidh mé, cheol mé and the like

A reader of this blog pointed out to me on Twitter that there is some evidence in the Irish of Oirialla (parts of Co. Armagh, Co. Louth, Co. Tyrone) that suggest that ceol was used as a finite verb in that dialect. While I am very much convinced that it was used as a verbal noun (amhrán a cheol) and as past tense form (cheol mé amhrán) in Ulster Irish, I had not seen it in any other finite forms than past tense.

However, this page suggests that such a form as ceolfaidh mé was possible in that dialect. On the other hand, it is obvious that the person using it was what we call cainteoir foirceanta in Irish, i.e. a terminal speaker, one who wasn't speaking the language regularly anymore and who might not have used the form back when the language was still vigorous as a community idiom.

With that proviso, I accept the possibility that people attempting to revive the native East Ulster Irish use such forms as ceolfaidh, ceolann, cheolfadh in their language.

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