Lessoon Shey Feed as Nane-Jeig: Tappee ny Moal?
Lesson One Hundred and Thirty-One: Fast or Slow?
shey feed as nane-jeig (SHAY-FEED-azz-NAAN-jegg) - 131
tappee (TAVV-ee) - fast, quick
moal (maul) - slow
shey feed as nane-jeig means six twenties and eleven.
Note that pp in tappee is softened to a v sound.
moal is used to describe someone who is not very well.
Peddyr: Honnick mee dy vel ad er chur cagliagh-bieauid er tooilley raad eddyr Doolish as Purt ny hInshey.
Ean: She, ta cagliagh jeih meeiley as feed syn oor trooid Crosby ooilliu nish. Dy beagh bree currit da cagliagh-bieauid feiyn Ellan, yinnagh eh cur yn olk er sleih ta cheet dys shoh son y TT.
Peddyr: Agh cha beagh whilleen drogh-haghyrtyn ayn. Ta sleih gimman foddey ro happee.
honnick mee (HONN-ick-mee) - I saw
Instead of Honnick mee, Peddyr could have said Ren mee fakin (RENN-mee-FAHG-in) - I saw (I did seeing).
dy vel ad er chur (the-VELL-add-err-KHUR) - that theyve put
Word for word, this means that they are after putting. The c in cur is changed to ch after er, where er can be taken to mean after.
This is how the perfect tense is formed in general:
VERB TO BE plus ER plus VERBAL NOUN.
tooilley raad (TULL-ya-RAAD) - more road
eddyr (EDD-ur) - between
she (shay) - it is (yes)
jeih meeiley as feed (jy-MELL-ya-azz-FEED) - thirty miles
trooid Crosby ooilliu (trood-KROZZ-bee-ULL-yoo) - all through Crosby
Dy beagh bree currit da cagliagh-bieauid (the-BEE-ukh-BREE-KURR-it-daa-KAGG-lee-akh-BYOO-id) - If a speed limit was put in force (If there was energy given to a speed limit).
feiyn Ellan (fine-ELL-yan) - throughout the Island
Yinnagh eh cur yn olk er sleih (YINN-akh-a-KUR-in-ULK-er-SLY) - It would annoy people (It would put the mischief on people).
cha beagh (ha-BEE-ukh) - would not be
whilleen (HWILL-yin) - as many
drogh-haghyrtyn (drawkh-HAGH-ert-un) - accidents
gimman (GIMM-an) - driving
foddey (FAWTH-a) - far
ro happee (raw-HAVV-ee) - too fast