{"id":49,"date":"2009-07-05T00:26:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T04:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-07-09T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:37:34","slug":"the-ins-and-outs-of-immigration-and-emigration-terminology-%e2%80%93-inimirce-agus-eisimirce-i-ngaeilge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/the-ins-and-outs-of-immigration-and-emigration-terminology-%e2%80%93-inimirce-agus-eisimirce-i-ngaeilge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ins and Outs of Immigration and Emigration Terminology \u2013 Inimirce agus Eisimirce i nGaeilge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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We recently had a ceist<\/strong> (question) about some terms having to do with inimirce<\/strong> (immigration).\u00a0 <\/span>Seo sampl\u00f3ir t\u00e9arma\u00ed<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

port eisimirce<\/span><\/strong>, emigration port, mar shampla, An C\u00f3bh, Co. Chiara<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00ed<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

port inimirce<\/span><\/strong>, immigration port, mar shampla, Filideilfia, Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A similar term is \u201clongphort iontr\u00e1la<\/strong>,\u201d lit. ship-port of entry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That last term introduces \u201clong<\/strong>,\u201d the word for \u201cship.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>A few samples with \u201clong<\/strong>\u201d or its possessive form \u201cloinge<\/strong>\u201d:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

lastliosta loinge<\/span><\/strong>, ship\u2019s manifest (lit. \u201ccargo-list of ship\u201d)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Can you figure out what types of ships these are?\u00a0 <\/span>See clues below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

long chogaidh, long fhada, long Lochlannach, long sholais, cathlong, and lastlong <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Getting back to the word \u201cport,\u201d it\u2019s quite well established in Irish.\u00a0 <\/span>It shows up clearly in a variety of place names, such as Port an D\u00fan\u00e1in<\/strong> (Portadown), Port L\u00e1irge<\/strong> (Waterford), and Port St\u00edobhaird<\/strong> (Portstewart), to name just a few.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Slightly disguised, it also appears in words and phrases like:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

calafort<\/span><\/strong>, harbor, based on \u201ccaladh<\/strong>\u201d (landing place, port) and \u201cphort<\/strong>\u201d (lenited form of \u201cport<\/strong>\u201d). Yes, the phrase is almost an athluaiteachas r\u00f3fhoclach <\/strong>(redundant tautology) but no more so than \u201csalsa sauce\u201d (\u201csalsa\u201d meaning sauce) or \u201cchicken pollo\u201d (\u201cpollo\u201d meaning chicken).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Toll\u00e1n Chalafort Bhaile \u00c1tha Cliath<\/span><\/strong>, Dublin Port Tunnel, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

aerfort<\/span><\/strong>, airport, based on \u201caer<\/strong>\u201d (air) and \u201cphort<\/strong>\u201d (lenited form of \u201cport<\/strong>\u201d),<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Aerfort na Sionainne<\/span><\/strong>, Shannon Airport, and,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Aerfort Iarthar \u00c9ireann, Cnoc Mhuire<\/span><\/strong>, Ireland West Airport Knock, in County Mayo.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And, by the way, if you\u2019re talking about birds, that\u2019s \u201cimirce<\/strong>\u201d (migration).\u00a0 <\/span>A migratory laborer, in the Irish context, is a spailp\u00edn<\/strong>, as immortalized in the folksong, \u201cAn Spailp\u00edn F\u00e1nach<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>That song, in turn, has lent its name to a gift shop specializing in Irish-language t-shirts, toys, and gifts, <\/span>www.spailpin.com<\/span><\/a>, located in the heart of the Conamara Gaeltacht, an Spid\u00e9al<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/span>More formally, a migratory laborer would be called an \u201coibr\u00ed imirceach<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Leideanna<\/span><\/strong> (clues):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

cogadh<\/span><\/strong>, war; fada<\/strong>, long; Lochlannach<\/strong>, Viking; solas<\/strong>, light; cath<\/strong>, battle; lasta<\/strong>, cargo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Leideanna fuaimnithe<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ceist <\/span><\/strong>[kesht], Cnoc Mhuire<\/strong> [knuk WIR-eh], eisimirce<\/strong> [ESH-IM-irk-yeh], long chogaidh<\/strong> [lung KHUG-ee], long sholais<\/strong> [lung HOL-ish], mar shampla<\/strong> [mahr HAHMP-luh].\u00a0 <\/span>A final note, to pronounce the word for ship, \u201clong<\/strong>,\u201d it may look just like the English word \u201clong\u201d (in length), but isn\u2019t pronounced quite the same.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s closer to English \u201clung,\u201d and probably best described as halfway between English \u201clung\u201d and \u201clong.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) We recently had a ceist (question) about some terms having to do with inimirce (immigration).\u00a0 Seo sampl\u00f3ir t\u00e9arma\u00ed:\u00a0 \u00a0 port eisimirce, emigration port, mar shampla, An C\u00f3bh, Co. Chiara\u00ed \u00a0 port inimirce, immigration port, mar shampla, Filideilfia, Pennsylvania \u00a0 A similar term is \u201clongphort iontr\u00e1la,\u201d lit. ship-port of entry \u00a0 That last term…<\/p>\n

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