Irish surnames Explains the Irish Gaelic origin behind names like McMahon and O'Connell, and shows how to find out what the Irish Gaelic version of your surname is. These tables summarize how the Irish definite articles an and na combine with nouns in the nominative and genitive cases, and how they mutate the beginning of the nouns. An incomplete but hopefully useful set of hints to successfully guessing the gender of Irish nouns. This is a growing collection of information about Irish grammar and some other aspects of the Irish language. Given the low quality of Irish language teaching in Ireland, a serious student of the language is pretty much left on his own to figure out how the language actually works under the hood.
New pages are likely to be added from time to time.
It gives you an explanation of the word in Irish and all grammatical information you could possibly want to know about the word, for example with nouns it tells you which gender it is, which declination group it falls into, and even declinates it for you in all the cases. The only thing that it doesn't give you is a translation of the word in English. Based at the University of Limerick in Ireland. This could be An Focl ir Beag 's younger brother. It talks to you in English though, and provides English translations of the vocabs.