Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel…
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10. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
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