{"id":4234,"date":"2013-07-07T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2015-04-13T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T05:39:16","slug":"traein-na-ndineasar-gluaisin-do-theamamhran-an-chlair-teilifise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/traein-na-ndineasar-gluaisin-do-theamamhran-an-chlair-teilifise\/","title":{"rendered":"Traein na nDineas\u00e1r: Gluais\u00edn do Th\u00e9amamhr\u00e1n an Chl\u00e1ir Teilif\u00edse (Cuid 1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Before we completely leave the topic of “na dineas\u00e1ir<\/strong>” and “na teireas\u00e1ir<\/strong>,” as discussed in several recent blogs (naisc th\u00edos<\/strong>), I thought it might be useful to provide a little glossary to the Irish version of the “Dinosaur Train” theme-song.\u00a0 It’s a charming little song and has been translated beautifully into Irish.\u00a0 You can hear it at http:\/\/www.tg4.ie\/ie\/programmes\/cula4-na-nog\/programmes\/dinosaur-train.html<\/a><\/p>\n

BTW, the liric\u00ed<\/strong> go by so fast that I had to listen to this about deich n-uaire<\/strong> before I could catch all the words.\u00a0\u00a0 In this blog, I’ve glossed the phrases I think are most interesting or challenging from a language viewpoint.\u00a0 I’ve left them in sequence to make it easier to follow the original (instead of putting them in ord na haib\u00edtre<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

1) fad\u00f3 fad\u00f3<\/strong>: one “fad\u00f3<\/strong>” simply means “long ago,” doubling up the phrase makes it mean “long long ago.”<\/p>\n

2) Bean U\u00ed Tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in<\/strong> [ban ee ter-AN-oh-dohn].\u00a0 NB: within the pronunciation guide, this “ban” is pronounced like the English word “ban,” i.e. rhyming with “tan” or “man” (except, I guess, “man” i mB\u00e9arla Iam\u00e1ice<\/strong>, which is more like “mahn”).\u00a0 In other words, it’s not like the actual Irish word “ban<\/strong>,” which is pronounced more like “bahn” and means “of women,” as in “Sliabh na mBan<\/strong>,” aka, i mB\u00e9arl<\/strong>a, “Slievenamon”}.\u00a0 “Bean U\u00ed<\/strong>” is one of the two standard ways of saying “Mrs.” in Irish; literally it’s “woman of.”\u00a0 This form is used for “O” surnames, so presumably the family surname is “\u00d3 Tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in<\/strong>.” \u00a0Normally, of course, we’d have lenition of the “t” for the “Mrs.” form, but here that the original “t” sound remains.<\/p>\n

What’s the other way to say “Mrs.,” you might be wondering? \u00a0It’s “Bean Mhic<\/strong>” [ban vik], as in “Bean Mhic Liam<\/strong>” (Mrs. Williams, lit. “wife of Mac Liam”).\u00a0 And both forms, Bean U\u00ed<\/strong> and Bean Mhic<\/strong>, can also drop the “bean<\/strong>” element and simply appear with the woman’s first name, as in “\u00dana U\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa<\/strong>” (Mrs. \u00dana Murphy, or Agnes, Oona, etc.) and “\u00dana Mhic Liam<\/strong>” (Mrs. \u00dana Williams).\u00a0 Changing “\u00d3<\/strong>” to “U\u00ed<\/strong>” and “Mac<\/strong>” to “Mhic<\/strong>” is sufficient to show that we mean “Mrs.”\u00a0\u00a0 But the ins and outs of titles in Irish are definitively \u00e1bhar blag eile<\/strong>, so let’s get back to the topic at, errmm, claw.<\/p>\n

Bottom line?\u00a0 “Bean U\u00ed Tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in<\/strong>” means “Mrs. Pteranodon.”<\/p>\n

3) \u00a0ina su\u00ed<\/strong> [in-uh see], sitting: since Bean U\u00ed Tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in<\/strong> is female, we use the feminine form for this phrase.\u00a0 If the male of the species kept the egg warm until hatching, as with na piongain\u00ed impireacha<\/strong> (Aptenodytes forsteri<\/em>), we’d say “ina shu\u00ed<\/strong>” [in-uh hee, with the “hee” sound of “shu\u00ed<\/strong>” (sitting)\u00a0conveniently, but simply by coincidence, matching the masculine pronoun “he”].\u00a0 Actually the piongain impireach<\/strong> stays “ina sheasamh<\/strong>” (standing) while the ubh<\/strong> is incubating, but that’s also \u00e1bhar blag eile<\/strong>” (ina su\u00ed vs. ina shu\u00ed, ina seasamh vs. ina sheasamh, srl.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

4) ag goradh<\/strong> [egg — what a coincidence! — GOR-uh], hatching.\u00a0\u00a0 The Irish preposition “ag<\/strong>” (at) is pronounced like English “egg” and doesn’t rhyme with English “bag” or “crag.”\u00a0 Comhtharl\u00fa suimi\u00fail<\/strong> for today’s blog, nach ea<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

5) ceann le ceann<\/strong>, one by one.\u00a0 Remember, “ceann<\/strong>” can mean “one” as well as “head.”<\/p>\n

6) beag\u00e1n n\u00edos m\u00f3<\/strong>, a little bigger.\u00a0 Note that in this recording, “m\u00f3<\/strong>” is pronounced with an “oo” (\u00fa) sound, like English “moot” or “moon.”\u00a0 Many other speakers pronounce “m\u00f3<\/strong>” as “moh,” as one might expect from the spelling. \u00a0 The same pronunciation (\u00f3 as \u00fa) occurs with other words such as “n\u00f3<\/strong>,” which often sounds as if it were spelled “n\u00fa<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Bhuel<\/strong>, it looks like this will be at least a “blag dh\u00e1 chuid<\/strong>,” perhaps even a “blag tr\u00ed chuid<\/strong>,” since we’re just about at the halfway point of the song.\u00a0 Tuilleadh le teacht!<\/strong>\u00a0 But meanwhile, I hope you check out the song if you haven’t already. \u00a0Agus bain sult as! \u00a0SGF, R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nascliosta (na blaganna eile faoi thearan\u00f3d\u00f3in agus faoi theireadachtalaigh, srl.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/an-ean-e-an-reiptil-e-an-dineasar-e-bhuel-ni-hea-sea-agus-ni-hea\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/vocabulary-round-up-for-the-tearanodon-blog-an-ean-e\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Before we completely leave the topic of “na dineas\u00e1ir” and “na teireas\u00e1ir,” as discussed in several recent blogs (naisc th\u00edos), I thought it might be useful to provide a little glossary to the Irish version of the “Dinosaur Train” theme-song.\u00a0 It’s a charming little song and has been translated beautifully into Irish.\u00a0 You…<\/p>\n

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