led'thoil
Irish
Phrase
led’thoil
- Alternative form of le do thoil (“please”)
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- « Anois, a mháthair », ar sise, « ó tá m’athair faghta bás agus gur fhág sé mo dhóthain do shaidhbhreas an tsaoghail agam-sa, is maith liom mé féin agus an saidhbhreas san do thabhairt do’n gcaptaen óg led’thoil-se ».
- “Now, mother,” she said, “since my father has died and has left me enough of the world’s wealth, I wish to give myself and that wealth to the young captain please.”
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194: