(le Róislín)

Bhuel, over the years, I written quite a few blaganna with an Easter theme, including basic terminology, the various forms of the word for “Easter” (an Cháisc), and how to describe eating a chocolate Easter bunny (cluasa, ar dtús, de ghnáth), cluasa go ruball, or even a chocolate Easter bilby (bilbí Cásca seacláide).

I was thinking of a téama reasonably traditional for this year, but then a couple of interesting news articles caught my eye.  So, órang-útain, goraillí, agus tóraíochtaí uibheacha Cásca, seo chugaibh muid.  Agus mar is gnách, na naisc thíos.

Our first link is for tóraíocht uibheacha Cásca na ngoraillí, is iad na goraillí i Zú Cincinnati atá i gceist.  Tá sé iontach suimiúil a bheith ag breathnú orthu, ceann le dhá bhascaed uibheacha, agus ag pointe amháin feiceann muid dóigh eile leis an ubh a iompar más goraille thú — i do bhéal.  Feiceann muid ubh Chásca i mbéal an ghoraille cúpla uair.

So, in addition to going through the various ways to say “Easter egg” in Irish, in today’s blog, we’ll also look at the major forms of the word  for “gorilla.”  In fact, I managed to incorporate most of them into the blog already.  It’s a 4th-declension masculine noun and its forms are fairly predictable:

an goraille, the gorilla

(béal) an ghoraille, (the mouth) of the gorilla

na goraillí, the gorillas

(tóraíocht uibheacha Cásca) na ngoraillí, the Easter egg hunt of the gorillas

I suppose we could add the forms for direct address, in case you’re talking to gorillas (más tusa Tarzan, mar shampla):

A ghoraille!, Gorilla! (in direct address).  We might think of this as being preceded by “O,” although that gives a bit more literary feel than we necessarily need.  And if I really wanted to call out to a gorilla, I could include “ó” as one of the words in the phrase: Ó, a ghoraille!

More casually, we might have, “Hé, a ghoraille!” (Hey, gorilla!)

The plural would be:

A ghoraillí!, Gorillas! (in direct address)

The second nasc below is for na hórang-útain i Zú Lowry Park, i dTampa, Florida.  Cé acu atá níos gleoite  — na hórang-útain iad féin nó na páistí ag caint fúthu?  Do bharúil?

This is actually a really fun word to decline (decline in the grammar sense), but then I enjoy declensions and conjugations anyway.  Since the word is originally Malay and Indonesian (meaning “forest person”), we get to apply Irish inflections to a word that’s not historically Irish.  That means, I believe, the initial Ts, Hs, and Ns, may strike you as more unusual than when dealing with a traditional Irish word like “úll” (an t-úll, na h-úlla, na n-úll, with variants : an t-úlla, na húllaí, na n-úllaí).  Seo na foirmeacha:

an t-órang-útan, the orang-utan

(lámh) an órang-útain, the hand of the orang-utan.   Or should it be paw (lapa)?  That question I’ll leave to all the, erm … I’ll go out on a limb here, and at least semi-coin a new word here in Irish, since I can’t find any evidence of it online, so … l’ll leave it to all the Irish-speaking príomhacheolaithe out there.   Anyone else know any other word for “primatologists” in Irish?

Anyway, hand or paw, we’re mainly interested in the tuiseal ginideach of orang-utan here, not anatomy.  Note that we drop the prefixed “t” and insert an “i” at the end to say “of the orang-utan.”

na hórang-útain, the orang-utans, note the prefixed “h” (no fleiscín in this usage) and again the inserted “i,” since this is a fairly standard 1st-declension noun in Irish, despite its origins mar fhocal iasachta

(béil) na n-órang-útan, the mouths of the orang-utans; note the prefixed “n” (le fleiscín, an uair seo) agus tabhair faoi deara go bhfuil an “i” ionsáite (or should that be “idir-i“?) imithe agus nach bhfuil ag deireadh an fhocail seo ach an “n” é féin.

Sin é do na ________ -útain.  That’s it for the orang-utans, grammar-wise, with a little strategic blank here for you to fill in, based on what we just discussed.  Freagra thíos

And finally, the real eochairfhocal for the day: ubh Chásca

an ubh Chásca, the Easter egg

(dath) na huibhe Cásca, the color of the Easter egg

na huibheacha Cásca, the Easter eggs

(dathanna) na n-uibheacha Cásca, the colors of the Easter eggs

Sin é don ghramadach don bhlag seo.   Tá súil agam gur bhain tú sult as na naisc, agus as na díochlaontaí (paraidímí nó táblaí), agus as gleoiteacht na ngoraillí, as gleoiteacht na _________-útan (bearna eile le líonadh isteach), agus as gleoiteacht na bpáistí atá breathnú orthu (na príomhaigh, atá i gceist agam leis an bhfocal “orthu” anseo).  Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil an oiread sin gleoiteachta ar pháistí agus iad ag breathnú ar pharaidímí  ainmfhocal!  SGF  — Róislín

Freagraí : 1) Sin é do na _hórang_ -útain.  2) gleoiteacht na _n-órang_-útan

Na Naisc

Na Goraillí: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRT1VGkkxoQ  Watching These Gorillas Have An Egg Hunt Will Get You Ready for Easter, posted by Inside Edition,  Published on Mar 24, 2016

Na hÓrang-útain: http://my.xfinity.com/video/watch-orangutans-hunt-for-easter-baskets/652611651545/Comcast/NBCNews_new?cid=watchmod_sf_photog&tab=News

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Agus Iarbhlag faoi sheacláid go ginearálta:
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