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Unit 24 - The seaside

"The Sea"

Some of us live by the sea. Others visit it from time to time. There is a wonderful Gaelic vocabulary associated with the marine environment. We shall merely scratch the surface here – but we hope that many of you will delve deeper! You will note that some words, like muir, have a genitive (or possessive) form which is very different from the standard nominative form of the word. The genitive of muir (sea) is mara (of the sea - think of "marine” or “maritime”).

Here is some vocabulary to get you started – both the nominative and genitive forms of the words, and their meanings, are given.

the sea

of the sea

the shore

of the shore

the boat

of the boat

the harbour

of the harbour

the fisherman

of the fisherman

the beach

of the beach

the net

of the net

the seaweed

of the seaweed

Transcript 1

Now listen to Seònaid and Iain as they take a walk down to a busy fishing harbour.

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