Hopefully this will prove an entertaining but useful review of the seanfhocail we just learned. Below we’ll have a few more proverbs to fill in that will be new for this blog (old, of course, mar eolas traidisiúnta). The choices are given first in a word bank, since columns may not work out in the various forms in which this blog is read:
Bunachar focal: chaint, ciúin, ionann, briathra, ola, shrón, folamh, dias, ciúin, más
1. Is minic a1 bhris béal duine a2 ______.
2. Soitheach ________ is mó torann.
3. Is ___ iad na linnte lána.
4. Is é an ____ is troime is ísle a chromann a ceann.
5. ___ maith leat síocháin, cairdeas, ‘s moladh, — éist, feic, agus fan balbh.
6. Ní dhéanfaidh an _________ an obair. .
7. Ní bheathaíonn na _________ na bráithre.
8. Faigheann an roth díoscánach an ____
9. Is minic _____ ciontach..
10. Is __________ toil ‘s éisteacht.
Seanfhocail Nach Raibh sa Bhlag Seo Cheana (“Seanfhocail Nua”)
Bunachar focal: iasc, mhóra, gandal
1. Na héisc bheaga a bheathaíos na héisc ______.
2. Má chuireann tú gé go dtí an domhan theas, ní bheidh sí ina ___ a’ teacht ar ais
3. Tá dúil ag an chat san ___ ach cha fhliuchann sé a chuid cosa le é a fháil.
Nótaí: a1, that; a2, his; dias, ear of corn; is, “-est” or “most” in phrases like “is mó” (from “mór”), “is troime” (from “trom”), and “is ísle” (from “íseal”); más, if it is (not the noun “más,” buttock, ham); díoscánach, squeaky; ciontach, guilty; beathaigh, feed, nourish; domhan theas, southern world; gandal, gander; dúil, desire; cha=ní (Donegal Irish); fliuch, wet (verb or adjective); a fháil, to get
