Latin loanwords

Charles Babbage

Most words in Irish to do with churches and learning come from Latin.

Could there exist a valid sentence in Irish that could be understood by a speaker of a Romance language?

Something in the style of

i gcorp na heaglaise scríobhann sé le peann ar an leabhar

Esel

Sentence structure would be radically different, I think?

Maybe an extremely short sentence might be intelligible.

LimeFruitGum

I think the seimhius and urus would put a native Romance speaker (with no prior knowledge of Irish) off as well.

Maybe a French speaker might figure out église from "eaglais", but I wouldn't expect them to realise on their own that "heaglaise" is a declined form of the noun.

I can't think of a decent example, sorry!

deirdremf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122573497#Comment_122573497

Maybe a French speaker might figure out église from "eaglais", but I wouldn't expect them to realise on their own that "heaglaise" is a declined form of the noun.

Not necessarily. A French person would not pronounce either the initial h nor the final e in the word "heaglaise" . so they might well connect the word with église!

As for writing a sentence that would be easy to understand, that would be fairly difficult, even with Breton or Welsh which are more closely related to Irish than the Romance languages are.

CrabRevolution

It'd have to mostly consist of nouns you'd imagine, and be derived from religious matter.

Though it has me thinking, if Dia derives from the Latin Deus, what was the Irish for God before Christianity?