Mar dhea vs mar dhia

Séamus O'Neill · **Posted:** Wed 04 Jun 2025 6:29 pm

The meaning between these two phrases seems to be very similar, if not interchangeable. Maybe the is that mar dhia is followed by a go/ná cluase? Do these ultimately stem from the same root?

Labhrás · **Joined:** Sat 03 May 2014 4:01 pm **Posts:** 1968

FGB is implying a difference. But I doubt that.

The root is: mar bh’eadh (mar bhadh eadh)

Dinneen wrote:

Mar […]
m. ḃ’eaḋ, m. ḃaḋ eaḋ, as it were, as if it were so, al. as interj. implies doubt and irony ;tá m. ḃ'eaḋ, it is, I don't think ! rí m. ḋeaḋ, a pretended king; tá m. ḃeaḋ gaḃar ar an mbóṫar róṁam, there is what seams to be a goat on the road, (pron. and oft. written mar ḋeaḋ, mauryah in Anglo-Irish al. mairge, Béarra,
mar ḋóiġ de, maróiġeaċt, Con)

Séamus O'Neill · **Posted:** Fri 06 Jun 2025 1:54 am

Thank you

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