{"id":11301,"date":"2020-01-31T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2020-04-12T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T10:56:07","slug":"coronavirus-terms-in-irish-a-z-aisduichiu-go-zonoiseach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/coronavirus-terms-in-irish-a-z-aisduichiu-go-zonoiseach\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Terms in Irish:\u00a0 A-Z\u00a0 (aisd\u00faichi\u00fa go z\u00f3n\u00f3iseach)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Credit:): CDC\/Dr. Fred Murphy – This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #4814. Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=822112. File:Coronaviruses 004 lores.jpg<\/a> Created: 1\/1\/75′ T\u00e9acs Gaeilge le R\u00f3isl\u00edn, 2020<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

There are, of course, many ways to look at and discuss the ongoing cor\u00f3inv\u00edreas<\/strong>, but, since this is a language-learning site, how about the tried and true method of ord na haib\u00edtre<\/strong> (alphabetical order)?\u00a0 Irish to English — and that may be a bit of a challenge since the Irish alphabet doesn’t typically have many words beginning with j, k, q, w, x, y, or z, and only a moderate number beginning with h or v.\u00a0 So we’ll see if we can actually come up a full 26 for the alphabet, or if some letters will have to remain as “bearna\u00ed<\/strong>” (gaps).\u00a0 But I don’t want to leave out “Wuhan,” so let’s see.<\/p>\n

A reminder for all, the traditional Irish alphabet is as follows: a b c d e f g h i l m n o p r s t u.\u00a0 But since we now have words like j\u00edp<\/strong> (jeep), v\u00e1stch\u00f3ta<\/strong> (waistcoat), and z\u00fa<\/strong> (zoo), it seems a bit of a moot point.\u00a0 At any rate, here’s one go-round, from A to Z in Irish.\u00a0 And I approached this project knowing I could at least do “z” because of the word “z\u00f3n\u00f3iseach<\/strong>.”\u00a0 The “A,” “B,” and “C” part should be straightforward enough, and as for the middle of the alphabet, feicimis<\/strong>.\u00a0 So, ar aghaidh linn<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

aisd\u00faichi\u00fa<\/strong>, repatriation (cf. d\u00faiche<\/strong>, territory; d\u00fachas<\/strong>, heritage)<\/p>\n

baile<\/strong>, can mean “town” (as in “Bally”) but can also mean “home” as in “sa bhaile<\/strong>” (at home), and its variant “sa mbaile<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Other related phrases are “abhaile<\/strong>” (homeward and “home” in the adverbial sense) and its variant “chun a’ bhaile<\/strong>” and “as baile<\/strong>” (from home, used to say one is “not at home”)<\/p>\n

casachtach<\/strong>, coughing, and of course, cor\u00f3inv\u00edreas<\/strong> itself<\/p>\n

domhanda<\/strong>, global, world (adjective) as in Eagra\u00edocht Dhomhanda Sl\u00e1inte<\/strong> (World Health Organization, WHO), which I’ve also seen written as Eagra\u00edocht Shl\u00e1inte an Domhain<\/strong> (literally “Organization of Health of the World”)<\/p>\n

\u00e9igeand\u00e1il<\/strong>, emergency<\/p>\n

fiabhras<\/strong>, fever<\/p>\n

galar<\/strong>, sickness, disease<\/p>\n

Hubei, as in C\u00faige Hubei<\/strong> (Hubei Province) in China, the province where Wuhan, the airmhe\u00e1n<\/strong> (epicenter) of this novel coronavirus is located<\/p>\n

\u00edomhaithe (ceamara \u00edomhaithe teirmeach)<\/strong>, images, as in “thermal imaging camera,” literally, thermal camera of images”)<\/p>\n

And for good measure, I’ll add another “i” word here.\u00a0 I thought I might end up using Yangtze (the river that runs through the city of Wuhan) for my “y” entry.\u00a0 But lo and behold, this river name has been Gaelicized, and begins with the letter “i” in Irish”<\/p>\n

an Iaing-ts\u00ed, <\/strong>the Yangtze (the river that flows through Wuhan_<\/p>\n

jab<\/strong>, meaning “job” and pronounced like English “job,” not like “to jab someone with your elbow.”\u00a0 What we’re all wondering about these days.\u00a0 Can we do “\u00e1r jabanna<\/strong>” (our jobs) from home?<\/p>\n

And another good “j” word, one I couldn’t resist, even though “jab<\/strong>” (job) is probably more practical:<\/p>\n

Jeid\u00edochas<\/strong>, Jediism\u00a0 perhaps a dose of this will help us get through these troubling times<\/p>\n

OK, “k” — always a challenge when going through the full roman alphabet with Irish vocabulary.\u00a0 Almost nothing begins with “k” in Irish since the “k” sound is taken care of by “c” in Irish (Kathleen \/ Caitl\u00edn<\/strong>; kangaroo \/ cangar\u00fa<\/strong>; Korea \/ An Ch\u00f3ir\u00e9<\/strong>, Kenya \/ An Ch\u00e9inia<\/strong>, srl.), but I finally came up with this:<\/p>\n

km<\/strong>, the abbreviation in Irish for cilim\u00e9adar<\/strong>, which is relevant to an cor\u00f3inv\u00edreas<\/strong> because “.001 km” is the very minimum recommended distance we stay apart from each other.\u00a0 “.002 km” is actually much better.\u00a0 OK, OK, of course it would be simpler just to say “a meter” or “two meters” instead of “a thousandth of a kilometer” or “two thousandths of a kilometer,” but like I said above, “k” is a bit of a stretch to begin with in Irish, anyway.<\/p>\n

And it is kind of fun to realize that “km” in Irish is probably one of the very few abbreviations anywhere, i dteanga ar bith<\/strong>, where the abbreviation doesn’t begin with the same letter as the word itself.\u00a0 And how does that work?\u00a0 The Irish for “kilometer (kilometre)” is “cilim\u00e9adar<\/strong>” and if we abbreviated that as “cm” it would look like the abbreviation for “ceintim\u00e9adar<\/strong>” in Irish and in English and many other languages, for that matter.\u00a0 For those in the US, it’s probably easier to think of all of this as “tr\u00ed troithe<\/strong>” (three feet) or, better yet, “s\u00e9 troithe<\/strong>” (six feet).<\/p>\n

leath<\/strong>, spread (verb) and \u00a0leathadh<\/strong>, spreading, as in “Leathann s\u00e9 go tapaidh \u00f3 dhuine go duine<\/strong>” (It spreads quickly from person to person)<\/p>\n

monat\u00f3ireacht<\/strong>, monitoring<\/p>\n

nigh<\/strong>, wash (verb), as in nigh do l\u00e1mha<\/strong> (wash your hands)<\/p>\n

ord\u00fa dianghlas\u00e1la<\/strong>, lockdown<\/p>\n

poll\u00e1ire<\/strong>, nostril, also means “button-hole” by the way<\/p>\n

q — this is even more of a stretch than the letter “k,” because almost nothing begins with “q” in Irish (names like Quinn and Quigley actually being “\u00d3 Cuinn<\/strong>” and “\u00d3 Coigligh<\/strong>” in their Irish spelling and borrowed “q” words also turning into “c” words: quart \/ c\u00e1rt<\/strong>, Quadragesima i.e. Lent \/ Carghas<\/strong> ).\u00a0 With some trepidation, I suggest the following:<\/p>\n

quin\u00edn<\/strong>, quinine, since it’s related to the drug “Chloroquine,” which was suggested as an antidote, but which seems very questionable.\u00a0 Furthermore, from an alphabetization perspective, “quin\u00edn<\/strong>” isn’t a great example these days since the spelling has been updated to “cuin\u00edn<\/strong>,” following the Irish “q” to “c” pattern.<\/p>\n

A query!\u00a0 A quandary! A question! – – Anyone have a better suggestion for the letter “q” in our list?<\/p>\n

r\u00e1ig<\/strong>, outbreak, as in r\u00e1ig den chor\u00f3inv\u00edreas<\/strong>, an outbreak of the coronavirus<\/p>\n

an tS\u00edn, na S\u00edne<\/strong>, China, of China.\u00a0 One trick thing about alphabetizing in Irish is the use of prefixed letters, like the “t” here.\u00a0 In theory, “S\u00edn<\/strong>” is the core of this word, but it’s almost never used since it gets the “t” prefix as the subject of the sentence (T\u00e1 an tS\u00edn san \u00c1ise<\/strong>) and would get the “-e” ending when showing possession, as in \u00a0“muintir na S\u00edne<\/strong>” (the residents of China).<\/p>\n

teocht<\/strong>, temperature, warmth (cf. te<\/strong>, warm, n\u00edos teo<\/strong>, warmer, is teo<\/strong>, warmest and sometimes “warmer”)<\/p>\n

urlabhra\u00ed<\/strong>, spokesperson; sampla: urlabhra\u00ed an AE<\/strong>, the spokesperson of the European Union<\/p>\n

v\u00edreas<\/strong>, virus — pretty self-explanatory<\/p>\n

Wuhan<\/em>, the Chinese city where this first came to global attention<\/p>\n

x — well, I haven’t really heard of x-ghathanna<\/strong> being used to detect the coronavirus, and x-gha<\/strong> (x-ray) is one of my old standby Irish words for alphabetical lists needing an “x-word.”\u00a0 So that one’s out, I think.\u00a0 Some other typical x-words, out of the dorn\u00e1in\u00edn<\/strong> that exist in Irish, are “xileaf\u00f3n<\/strong>,” not relevant here, except perhaps for music therapy (which I think is wonderful, by the way) and x-chr\u00f3mas\u00f3m<\/strong>, but I’m not sure that genetic research is the clue to defeating the novel coronavirus.\u00a0 A eipid\u00e9imeolaithe<\/strong>, please feel to chime in on that, since, to reverse quote Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy and to Gaelicize his famous catchphrase, “I’m a linguist, not a doctor” (N\u00ed docht\u00fair m\u00e9 ach teangeola\u00ed<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

y – again, not much choice for the letter “y,” especially since “The Yangtze<\/em>” is out now, as noted above, since the Irish for it is “An Iaing-ts\u00ed<\/strong>.”\u00a0 We could mention\u00a0 Yokohama<\/em>, the Japanese city where the cruise ship with coronavirus patients was docked, and the “yuan<\/em>,” the Chinese unit of currency, neither of which change for Irish spelling (Tokyo does, though, btw: T\u00f3iceo<\/strong>, note: no “k” and no “y”)<\/p>\n

I wonder if there’s some sort of term like “\u00e9ifeacht y\u00f3y\u00f3<\/strong>” that might describe the disease bouncing back, with repatriation happening all around the world.\u00a0 I can testify that “y\u00f3y\u00f3<\/strong>” is the official Irish for “yoyo.”\u00a0 That would give us a “y-word.”<\/p>\n

z\u00f3n\u00f3iseach<\/strong>, zoonotic, a term which, if we didn’t know it before this coronavirus outbreak, now we do know what the term now (transmissible from animals to humans).\u00a0 I ‘m not sure if it works in reverse (transmissible from human to animal).\u00a0\u00a0 If anyone knows, it would be great if you could let us know and if there’s an Irish term specifically for that.<\/p>\n

This glossary could really be hundreds of words long, so maybe some future blogs will return to this topic. \u00a0At some point, we’ll return to or rotate in some other blogs series that had been started.\u00a0\u00a0 Hope this was helpful\u00a0 – R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foilsithe tar \u00e9is an bhlag seo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Irish Words for Sneezing and Coughing \u2014 Sraothartach agus Casachtach (COVID-19 terms)<\/a>Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Feb 18, 2020 in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) There are, of course, many ways to look at and discuss the ongoing cor\u00f3inv\u00edreas, but, since this is a language-learning site, how about the tried and true method of ord na haib\u00edtre (alphabetical order)?\u00a0 Irish to English — and that may be a bit of a challenge since the Irish alphabet doesn’t typically…<\/p>\n

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