Re: NATLANG: Irish greeting

Stephen Mulraney scripsit:

> OTOH, there is a bit of a twist: 'Ó' has a genitive form 'Ui', so that
> you'd say "O'Connell" as "Ó Connall" (have I spelt that right? I'm not
> sure - having a head cold always makes me rather dyslexic (!)), and
> "O'Connell's dog" as "madra Ui Chonnaill". So perhaps they have different
> sources.
Perhaps.  In Ulster, the Ui Niaill was the whole clan (double clan,
actually: the Northern and the Southern); the O'Neill family was only
a small part, though the most socially prominent part, of this clan.

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