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How To Say – “Peace” in Irish Gaelic (VIDEO)
How to say “peace” in Irish Gaelic
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síocháin
/she-ukh-awn/
peace
Tá an tír faoi shíocháin
/Taw an cheer fwee hee-ukh-awn/
The country is at peace.
Another word is often used when speaking of personal peace.
Suaimhneas
/swev-ness/
Peace, tranquillity
Tá mé ar mo shuaimhneas.
/Taw may air muh hwev-ness/
I am at peace, at ease.
It seems to me that when the word is introduced it it pronounced with an s sound the the beginning but when used in a sentence it sounds like it starts with an h sound. Please explain this to me
The ‘s’ in ‘síochán’ is a ‘sh’ sound as it is a slender ‘s’. This is because it is beside an ‘i’, a slender vowel.
This tells you more on slender and broad – https://www.bitesize.irish/blog/the-sounds-of-irish-gaelic-part-1/
The ‘h’ sound you’re hearing is something called lenition. This puts a ‘h’ or lenites / softens the sound.
Have a look at our post on lenition here https://www.bitesize.irish/blog/irish-gaelic-grammar-101-lenition/