Giorraíonn beirt bóthar
Two people shorten a road · Gir-een bert boh-har
Giorraíonn beirt bóthar means Two people shorten a road, and is said Gir-een bert boh-har.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads Shortens two a road. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Gir-een bert boh-har, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
Company makes the journey shorter. An old thing to say to someone setting out, and the reason anyone in rural Ireland will walk you to the gate.
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