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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Term - SLAINTE




St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner so it's time to learn a drinking term "Slainte."
Sláinte is commonly used as a drinking toast in Ireland and Scotland. Literally translating as "health."
Common Variations are:

1- It can for be expanded to sláinte mhaith "good health" in Irish

2- The basic Scottish Gaelic equivalent is slàinte mhath (same meaning) to which the normal response is do dheagh shlàinte "your good health".

3- Another Scottish variation is air do shlàinte "on your health!" with the response slàinte agad-sa "health at yourself!"

4- Another Scottish vatiation is slàinte mhòr "great health" which is also used as a Jacobite toast with the alternative meaning of "health to Marion", Marion (Gaelic Mòr) being a Jacobite code name for Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

5- The Manx Gaelic form is slaynt vie. Alternatively, corp slaynt "healthy body" is also used in Manx.

Sound familiar?? In modern Romance languages, the word descended from salus (such as salud in Spanish, saúde in Portuguese or santé in French) are used as a toast.

From Wikipedia

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