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Thread #42865   Message #630404
Posted By: GUEST
18-Jan-02 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Help! Gaelic Dubilin name
Subject: RE: BS: Help! Gaelic Dubilin name
Oh, that's bóithrín - little road.

A bóthar, by the way, is bó (cow) thar (passage, in the verbal sense) - a road wide enough for two drovers to pass with their cattle.