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Irish names

submitted by boekanier to whatever 1 weekJun 6, 2025 01:41:57 ago (+25/-0)     (pomf.lain.la)

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Estar is a temporaty state of being whereas ser is permanent.

Yup Irish would use “Tá” (is, am are) to say “Is hunger on me,” where tá has a similar meaning to estar. I think the proto-indo-european language might have had 2 verbs for “to be” like spanish and irish.

Irish is a passive language? In which something is done to a person, not the person doing the thing?

It often is. You cannot say you have or own a thing. You say that a thing is at you. There are many expressions that are like this. Theres no word for “to like”, they say that a thing is good with them instead. Other celtic languages like welsh have similar constructions.

You are an intellectual but not a scholar.

Neither am i. I just dabble. I learned a little bit about proto-indo-european and I find it interesting to see all the ways that it has evolved in different parts of europe and asia.