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 Post subject: Longest word in Irish
PostPosted: Fri 08 Mar 2013 3:12 am 
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Does anybody know what the longest word in Irish is?

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I wouldn't really be sure in Modern Irish (Dineen has a few monsters with around thirty letters), but in Bardic/Classical Irish you
could get really long compound words, since the Bards had a specific set of grammatical rules for generating compound words as a
way of making the meters in their poetry work. I'll get some examples, I don't have the particular book with the examples with me
at the moment.

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Domhnaillín Breac
PostPosted: Mon 11 Mar 2013 7:32 pm 
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swisscheese wrote:
Does anybody know what the longest word in Irish is?

I imagine the name of a chemical compound, just as it is in English. Cf. déchlóraidhéfheiniltríchlóireatán "DDT".
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swisscheese
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lol, Thanks much Saoirse. I look forward toward some interesting words!

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swisscheese wrote:
lol, Thanks much Saoirse. I look forward toward some interesting words!
I think I may be receiving credit for something that I didn't do! :mrgreen:

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