{"id":4242,"date":"2013-07-11T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2015-04-13T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T05:45:07","slug":"traein-na-ndineasar-gluaisin-do-theamamhran-an-chlair-teilifise-cuid-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/traein-na-ndineasar-gluaisin-do-theamamhran-an-chlair-teilifise-cuid-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Traein na nDineas\u00e1r: Gluais\u00edn do Th\u00e9amamhr\u00e1n an Chl\u00e1ir Teilif\u00edse (Cuid 2\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In the last blog, we looked at some vocabulary from the t\u00e9amamhr\u00e1n<\/b> for a popular cl\u00e1r teilif\u00edse<\/b> for children, “Traein na nDineas\u00e1r<\/i><\/b>.<\/i>” \u00a0In this blog, we’ll continue with some words and phrases from this song.\u00a0\u00a0 As before, I’m not presenting them in ord na haib\u00edtre<\/b>, but in sequence, as they appear in the song, which you can hear (i nGaeilge<\/b>) at http:\/\/www.tg4.ie\/ie\/programmes\/cula4-na-nog\/programmes\/dinosaur-train.html<\/a><\/p>\n

S\u00fail siar \u00f3n mblag deireanach: an cuimhin leat iad seo?\u00a0 1) fad\u00f3 fad\u00f3, 2) Bean U\u00ed Tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in, 3) ina su\u00ed, 4) ag goradh, 5) ceann le ceann, 6) beag\u00e1n n\u00edos m\u00f3<\/b> (translations at the previous blog, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/traein-na-ndineasar-gluaisin-do-theamamhran-an-chlair-teilifise\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n

Anois, an ch\u00e9ad chuid eile den ghluais\u00edn:<\/b><\/p>\n

7) fiacla d\u00fabailte<\/b>: double teeth.\u00a0 And yes, I double-checked this and found out that, yes, indeed, t\u00e1 fiacla d\u00fabailte ag an <\/b>Tyrannosaurus rex.<\/em>\u00a0 Now why didn’t I know that already?\u00a0 B’fh\u00e9idir go raibh s\u00e9 ar eolas agam cheana ach rinne m\u00e9 dearmad ar an bhf\u00edor\u00f3id\u00edn sin.\u00a0 Ceist mhaith do<\/b> “Trivial Pursuits,” \u00e1fach!<\/b><\/p>\n

Where did the Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em> come in?\u00a0 Remember, in Dinosaur Train<\/em>, “Buddy” is the T. rex who hatches in the pteranodon nest, so his distinctive features are described in the song.\u00a0 \u00a0I initially assumed that this emphasis on Buddy’s fiacla<\/b> meant that the pteranodons didn’t have teeth, but a brief scamper around the Internet suggests that the question of pteranodon teeth is fraught with confusion, error, disagreement, and plain old geographic variation, so I won’t belabor the point here.\u00a0\u00a0 Another \u00e1bhar<\/b> best left to the pail\u00e9-ointeolaithe<\/b>.<\/p>\n

I guess a pteranodontist would know about ceist na bhfiacla<\/b>, so if you can find one, we could ask him or her!\u00a0 \u00a0Of course, if tearan\u00f3d\u00f3in<\/b> don’t have fiacla<\/b>, they wouldn’t need seirbh\u00eds\u00ed \u00a0an<\/b>, errmm, *tearan\u00f3d\u00f3nt\u00f3ra<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0 Which probably means that *tearan\u00f3d\u00f3nt\u00f3ir\u00ed <\/b>are pretty scarce, dare I say about as scarce as … hen’s teeth!<\/p>\n

8) cos\u00falacht<\/b>, similarity.\u00a0 So the song tells us that the baby T. rex<\/em> doesn’t look like a mham<\/b> [uh wam], just like the lach\u00edn ghr\u00e1nna<\/b> in Andersen’s tale didn’t resemble a mhamsa<\/b>, since the lach\u00edn ghr\u00e1nna<\/b> wasn’t really a lach\u00edn<\/b> at all, but was actually an “\u00e9an eala<\/b>” (cygnet, lit. chick of swan).\u00a0\u00a0 Andersen’s lach\u00edn ghr\u00e1nna<\/b> didn’t resemble a mham<\/b>, since the mother was a lacha<\/b>.\u00a0 Likewise, Buddy, an dineas\u00e1r<\/b>, doesn’t resemble his ucht-mh\u00e1thair<\/b> because he is a dineas\u00e1r<\/b> (T. rex<\/em>) and she is a teireas\u00e1r<\/b> (tearan\u00f3d\u00f3n<\/b>).<\/p>\n

I don’t actually remember if Andersen’s lach\u00edn<\/b> was supposed to be male or female in the story, but male rings a bell so I used the masculine possessive forms in the paragraph above.\u00a0 But if the lach\u00edn<\/b> were female, we’d say “a mam<\/b>” for “her mom\/mam\/mum” and “a mamsa<\/b>” for “HER mom\/mam\/mum”, with the “-sa<\/b>” suffix added for contrast or emphasis.\u00a0 If “a<\/b>” means “his,” we say “a mham<\/b>” (his mom), but if “a<\/b>” means “her,” we say “a mam<\/b>.”\u00a0 The word “a<\/b>” can mean “his” or “her” and we need context in order to translate it exactly.\u00a0 That same single-letter word, “a<\/b>,” can also mean about 9 more things, but we’ll leave those for blaganna eile<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The word “lach\u00edn<\/b>” itself is grammatically feminine, (despite the “-\u00edn<\/b>” ending), so if we were talking about a generic duckling, we would use the feminine forms (a mam, a mamsa<\/b>, etc.).<\/p>\n

So, all that just to discuss “cos\u00falacht<\/b>.”\u00a0 But before we leave “cos\u00falacht<\/b>,” I’ll note a few more phrases using this word for “similarity” in very different contexts, to delight the hearts of the staitisteoir\u00ed<\/b> among you.\u00a0 Seo c\u00fapla sampla i gcomhth\u00e9acs staitisti\u00fail (aistri\u00fach\u00e1n th\u00edos):<\/b><\/p>\n

a) comh\u00e9ifeacht chos\u00falachta <\/b><\/p>\n

b) maitr\u00eds na gcos\u00falachta\u00ed <\/b>(as opposed to the “maitr\u00eds chos\u00falachta”<\/b>!)<\/b><\/p>\n

c) prionsabal na cos\u00falachta <\/b><\/p>\n

And that’s almost a blog’s worth, but let’s do a few more straightforward ones before we leave cuid a d\u00f3 den tsraith seo.<\/b><\/p>\n

9) difri\u00fail, <\/b>different<\/p>\n

10) ainmh\u00ed <\/b>[AN-iv-ee, note the inserted vowel sound between the “n” and the “mh”], animal<\/p>\n

And to wrap up, who can guess the nicely alliterative word that fits in the next line of the song, coming between “dineas\u00e1r<\/b>” and “den scoth<\/b>“? \u00a0An freagra sa ch\u00e9ad bhlag eile<\/b>, or, ar nd\u00f3igh<\/b>, by listening to the song at the nasc<\/b> above.\u00a0 Don’t be discouraged if listening to the song the first time around you don’t get all the words.\u00a0 It took me, um, about deich n-uaire<\/b> (ten times) to get it all down.\u00a0 BTW, that wasn’t “deich n-uaire<\/b>” in the sense of “ten hours,” just “ten times.”\u00a0 Hopefully it won’t ever take me ten hours to transcribe a song of approximately 100 words!<\/p>\n

An ch\u00e9ad uair eile, cuid a tr\u00ed, agus deireadh an amhr\u00e1in! \u00a0SGF, R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/b><\/p>\n

Aistri\u00fach\u00e1n do 8): \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

a) comh\u00e9ifeacht chos\u00falachta<\/b>, coefficient of similarity (and please don’t ask me to use either of those in abairt\u00ed, i nGaeilge n\u00f3 i mB\u00e9arla<\/b>!)<\/b><\/p>\n

b1) maitr\u00eds na gcos\u00falachta\u00ed<\/b>, matrix of similarities<\/p>\n

b2) maitr\u00eds chos\u00falachta<\/b>, similarity matrix<\/p>\n

c) prionsabal na cos\u00falachta<\/b>, similarity principle<\/p>\n

And lo and behold, there you have, before your very eyes, the word cos\u00falacht<\/b> in a) the genitive singular lenited, b1) genitive plural eclipsed, b2) genitive singular lenited used attributively, and c) genitive singular with no lenition, following “na<\/b>.”\u00a0 Who’duh thunk it, that all of that would surface as we discussed T. rex\u00edn\u00ed<\/b>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) In the last blog, we looked at some vocabulary from the t\u00e9amamhr\u00e1n for a popular cl\u00e1r teilif\u00edse for children, “Traein na nDineas\u00e1r.” \u00a0In this blog, we’ll continue with some words and phrases from this song.\u00a0\u00a0 As before, I’m not presenting them in ord na haib\u00edtre, but in sequence, as they appear in the…<\/p>\n

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