CHAPTER IX.
OF INTERJECTIONS.
The syllables or sounds, employed as expressions of various emotions or sensations, are numerous in Gaelic, but for the most part provincial, and arbitrary. Only one or two single vocables, and a few phrases, require to be noticed under this division.
Och! Ochan! alas!
Ochan nan och! alas and well-a-day!
Fire faire! what a pother!
Mo thruaighe! my misery! Mo chreachadh! my despoiling! woe's me!
Mo nàire! my shame, for shame! fy!
H-ugad, at you, take care of yourself, gardez-vous.
Feuch! behold! lo!