A chuisle

My pulse · Ah khwish-leh

A chuisle means My pulse, and is said Ah khwish-leh.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads O pulse. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Ah khwish-leh, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

A term of great affection: you are the pulse in my wrist. It reached a wide audience as mo cuishle in the film Million Dollar Baby, which is a phonetic spelling of mo chuisle. The fuller phrase is a chuisle mo chroí, pulse of my heart.

More like this

• Tá grá agam duit: I love you
• Mo ghrá thú: You are my love
• A stór: My darling
• A chuisle mo chroí: Pulse of my heart
• A mhuirnín: My darling
• A leanbh: My child

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