Focal an Lae: Gaoth

Sunday, 18 October 2026

Gaoth (gwee) is the Irish for wind.

The word in Gweedore, Gaoth Dobhair, the windy inlet of Donegal. Irish has a whole vocabulary for wind, from feothan, a breeze, to stoirm.

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A new Irish word every morning, 386 of them in the round, with the feast days of the Irish year keeping their own. Today’s word. More in the phrases, the names and the place names.