Chapter 14

OF INTERJECTIONS.

The syllables or sounds, employed as expressions of various emotions or sensations, are numerous in Gaelic, but for the most part provincial, and arbitrary. Only one or two single vocables, and a few phrases, require to be noticed under this division.

Och! Ochan! alas! Ochan nan och! _alas_ and _well-a-day!_ Fire faire! what a pother! Mo thruaighe! _my misery!_ } Mo chreachadh! _my despoiling!_ } woe's me! Mo n[`a]ire! _my shame_, for shame! fy! H-ugad, _at you_, take care of yourself, _gardez-vous_. Feuch! behold! lo!

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