Is mór in bét!

(great * the * calamity)

What a pity!

This exclamation, used as a cheville in a short poem found in “Sanas Cormaic”, is still alive virtually unchanged 1,100 years later in Scottish Gaelic as “Is mór am beud”. See also the quatrain that begins “Mór in bét!” in this collection.

Topics: Exclamations Woe