Archive for September, 2010
Warm, Hot, Sweltering, Sudorific (i nGaeilge) Posted by róislín on Sep 10, 2010
While one may not think of the Irish climate as overwhelmingly hot, it never hurts to have the vocabulary to describe it as such. Especially given téamh domhanda. Or for Irish speakers vacationing i bhFlorida nó sa Spáinn. I was about to casually say “laethe madrúla an tsamhraidh” (the dog days of summer), but I…
Dea-aimsir! Posted by róislín on Sep 6, 2010
The title sounds short and sweet, but to some extent this blog is actually disguised coverage of prefixes, lenition, and hyphenation. Good ole “baoite agus aistriú”! We’ve talked a lot lately about drochaimsir [DROKH-AM-shirzh], ranging from hairicín to saighneán gaoithe. How about some more upbeat terms, even if sometimes they’re just smaoineamh in aice le…
Cineálacha Stoirmeacha (Kinds of Storms) Posted by róislín on Sep 3, 2010
Last blog we discussed hairicíní, for which the Irish word is an adaptation of either the Carib for “God of Evil” or the name of a Mayan storm god, Hurakan – the sources for this don’t agree on which. Either way, the word went through a couple of filters before reaching Irish, namely Spanish “huracán”…