A mhuirnín

My darling · Ah wur-neen

A mhuirnín means My darling, and is said Ah wur-neen.

Word for word

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

How to say it

Say it Ah wur-neen, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

From muirn, affection, with the ín ending Irish adds to make a word fond. Anglicised as mavourneen in nineteenth century songs.

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