• Irish -- (BBC radio show) Boin River ... female Boinda (white cow river

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Mon Jun 3 21:50:15 2024
    XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.HenHanna

    On 6/2/2024 10:39 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    Hibou wrote:

    I think it's Peter who is studying Irish...

    'Word of Mouth - The Irish Language' -
    <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zdwq>


      mee  too.


     This show is pretty good....     as good as it gets.

     but i stopped  listening when the guy in Dublin (RTE)  came on.

                          There was no hook...  to hook me in.


    but when i started listening again... omg...


    --- Boin River is ... It's a female Boinda, the white cow river. ....
    same as Govinda, which is the Indian river

    --- Bo is the Irish for cow -- Sanskrit for cow is Go.
    Go and Bo, same word, same
    root.



    This guy must be teh real deal....
    ---- or do Linguists hate him too?

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