The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90332 Message #1711198
Posted By: Windsinger
05-Apr-06 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: How do you define it?
Subject: RE: BS: How do you define it?
Purple, the glib answer is that if you're looking for a single word, grá, as its English counterpart, can suffice as a catch-all term for all four of the Greek names.
The more in-depth answer is that when you use Irish to describe different gradations of feeling for someone, you get VERY heavily into idiomatic expressions, as opposed to single words.