It would be pronounced almost exactly like the Spanish niño - "(young) boy", which sounds far-fetched, but then again there's also the very common Irish word garsún, also meaning "boy", which clearly is from the French word with the same meaning.

I've finished Labharfad le Cách, but I've go some questions:

1. Ach do chuir na buachaillí suas é go raibh na pinginí ag Nóra agus dá bhféadfadh sé gabháilt timpeall uirthi agus í a phósadh, go mbeadh aige.

Gabháil tímpall ar dhuine - I can't find this in dictionaries, but does it mean (mirroring the English) "to get round someone", ie "to get someone to do something"?

2. Ní haon dea-shúic thu.

This apparently means "you are no great shakes" (you are not such a great person). Does anyone recognise this?

"Gabháil timpall ar" is essentially equivalent to "mealladh".



It's a direct borrowing of the English phrase, i.e. s(i)úic is just "shake" said with Irish phonology.

Nano is a Hiberno-English pet form of Nora. The spelling is just showing how Peig rendered it in Irish.

Shows a fairly common feature where English N was said as slender N by monolinguals or those with a weak command of English.