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The Irish Dictionary

This selection from the Irish Dictionary contains English words and phrases, followed by Irish words and phrases: the translations are included. The Irish language does not use the letters V, W, X, Y or Z, so we finish a look at the Dictionary with a double helping of English-Irish words beginning W, Y.

This is another in a series covering extracts from the entire dictionary.

English – Irish WY

W
wife bean [ban]
wild fiáin [fee-aan]
wind gaoth [gee]
window fuinneog [fwinneog]
wine fíon [feen]
winter geimhreadh [gevroo]
woman bean [ban]
wood (trees) coill [kil]
(material) adhmad [iemud]
word focal [fokul]
work obair [obir]
I work oibrím [ibreem]
worried buartha [boourhu]
worth: it is worth a lot is fiú mórán é [is fyoo moeraan ae]
write: I write scríobhaim [shkreewim]
wrong cearr [kyaar] otherwise mícheart
Y
yellow buí [bwee]
yesterday inné [i—nae]
young óg youth (individual) fear óg [far oeg] (abstract) an óige [u—Noegi]

This concluding part of the series began with English-Irish VW.

Another in a series of extracts from the Irish Dictionary by Seosamh Watson, published by Appletree Press.

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