A leanbh

My child · Ah lan-uv

A leanbh means My child, and is said Ah lan-uv.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Ah lan-uv, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Said to a child, and also to a grown person you are fond of, the way an older person in Ireland will still say love or pet in English.

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