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Example sentences for: gaelic

How can you use “gaelic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Some, like French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, had more in common with one another than they did with, say, German, English, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch, which, in turn, bore only a remote resemblance to Russian and Polish, on the one hand, and the two extant varieties of, say, Gaelic, on the other.
The Caledonian Brewery holds regular evenings called ceilidhs — a Gaelic word for informal gatherings with music, dance, stories, and song (42 Slateford Road; Tel. 337 1286).
Sometimes these are given by the dictionary; sometimes it is the best guess I can come up with in spite of the inconsistencies, the regionalisms, and the often considerable changes in the inflected word stems of Gaelic which create huge pitfalls for the novice translator.
Donald McKay's article “The Gaelic View of Heather” reminds me of Arden Carl Mathew's short but pointed poem “The Death of Irish,” which I reproduce in full below:
In the Gaelic parts of Scotland and Ireland, the word for heather was fraoch , pronounced nearly like German fröch . There are many regional differences in Gaelic, and fraoch can be pronounced “FREWX” or “FRAWX” in some parts of Gaeldom, perhaps explaining some of the spellings that have come into English for health-related words like frawlin or fraughan for blueberry, and freuchan for the “reinforcing toe cap of a brogue” (shoe, not accent) to prevent excessive wear by the heather.