{"id":18781,"date":"2026-06-29T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18781"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:06:47","slug":"prepositions-as-imperatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/06\/29\/prepositions-as-imperatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepositions as imperatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An interesting tidbit about an aspect of Modern Irish:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Many adverbs and several prepositions, which may indicate direction or movement either towards or away from the speaker, are often employed in Irish with the force of imperatives.<\/p>\r\n<p>[For example,] <i>Chugat an mhuc<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2018Beware of the pig.\u2019 (Lit. Towards you (may well be coming) the pig.)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\u2014from \u201cIrish,\u201d by D\u00f3nall P. \u00d3 Baoill, in <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Celtic-Languages\/Ball-Muller\/p\/book\/9781138969995\">The Celtic Languages<\/a><\/cite> (2009), ed. Martin Ball and Nicole Muller, p.&nbsp;198.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-parts-of-speech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18787,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}