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Bí ag imṫeaċt!
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Be going!
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Ná bí ag ṡeasaṁ ansain!
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Don’t remain standing there!
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Coruig agus ná bíḋtear ag feiṫeaṁ leat!
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Make haste lest (the people) may be waiting for you!
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Ná bí am ḃoḋraḋ!
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Don’t be bothering me!
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Ná bí ag magaḋ fút féin!
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Don’t be making game of yourself, i.e., don’t be making a fool of yourself.
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Ná bí ag leigint na gaoíṫe isteaċ.
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Don’t be letting the wind in, i.e., don’t be talking absurdly
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Conus ’taoi?
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How are you?
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An ḃfuil ’n tu go diaḃulta?
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Are you exceedingly well?
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Some of our Irish scholars are under an extraordinary misapprehension regarding this word, diaḃulta. They imagine it is derived from the word diaḃal=devil. It is not. It simply means "re-doubled." When some of our learned men meet diaḃulta they call it "like a fiend." But when they meet cóicdiabulta they have to call it what it really means, "five-fold."
The people's instinct has enabled them to give the true meaning of the word in their own broken English. Here is how they manage it:—
Tá sé ag sioc.
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"It is freezing."
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Tá sé ag sioc go diaḃulta.
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It is freezing greatly."
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