Re: NATLANG: Irish greeting

daniel andreasson scripsit:

> Someone on another list asked me what the Irish phrase
> "Agus slân leat ô Eireann" ("Agus sla+n leat o+ Eireann"
> without the mail-unfriendly characters) means.
"And goodbye to you[sg.] from[?] Ireland."  I'm not too sure about the
preposition, but that seems the reasonable one.

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