{"id":68,"date":"2009-08-22T00:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T04:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-08-22T00:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T04:49:25","slug":"cupla-teanga-eile-cathu-dochloite-gearmainis-gaillis-ollainis-seicis-srl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/cupla-teanga-eile-cathu-dochloite-gearmainis-gaillis-ollainis-seicis-srl\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00fapla Teanga Eile (Cath\u00fa Dochlo\u00edte): Gearm\u00e1inis, Gaillis, Ollainis, Seicis, srl."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, well, this is still only barr an chnoic oighir.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>But, c\u00e9n dochar?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

I\u2019ve picked some representative figures here to illustrate someone saying they speak a given language.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Gearm\u00e1inis.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is muide Asterix agus Obelix.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edmid Gaillis agus Laidin.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Ollainis.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Franz Kafka.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Gearm\u00e1inis agus Seicis.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Oivid.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Laidin agus scr\u00edobhaim fil\u00edocht i Laidin.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise H\u00f3im\u00e9ar.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Gr\u00e9igis agus scr\u00edobhaim fil\u00edocht i nGr\u00e9igis.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Matsuo Basho.\u00a0 <\/span>Scr\u00edobhaim fil\u00edocht i Seap\u00e1inis i bhfoirm haiku.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Adi Kavi Valmiki.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm Sanscrait. \u00a0<\/span>Scr\u00edobh m\u00e9 an Ramayana.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Is mise Harry Potter.\u00a0 <\/span>Labhra\u00edm B\u00e9arla agus *Snathairtheanga.\u00a0 <\/span>N\u00edl ann ach b\u2019fh\u00e9idir seisear eile a bhfuil n\u00f3 a raibh Snathairtheanga acu; ba de shliocht Salazar Slytherin an chuid is m\u00f3 acu.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Fuaimni\u00fa agus Ciall: cath\u00fa <\/span><\/strong>[KAH-hoo] temptation; dochlo\u00edte <\/strong>[duh-KHLEE-tcheh] invincible, here \u201cirresistible\u201d; cnoc oighir <\/strong>[knok AI-irzh] iceberg; fil\u00edocht <\/strong>[FIL-ee-ukht] poetry; i bhfoirm X <\/strong>[ih WIRzh-im] in (the) form of X; de shliocht <\/strong>[djeh hlikht, note silent \u201cs\u201d] of the lineage \/ ancestry of, descended from<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Snathairtheanga <\/span><\/strong>[SNAH-hirzh-HANG-guh], a tri-partite \u201ccomhfhocal,\u201d <\/strong>consisting of \u201cnathair<\/strong>\u201d (snake) + teanga <\/strong>(tongue) + an initial \u201cs\u201d for the \u201csiosarnach\u201d <\/strong>(hissing).\u00a0 <\/span>Since lucht lean\u00fana Harry Potter i nGaeilge <\/strong>are still waiting for the actual translation of Book 2 of the series to be done, I have coined this word in the interim.\u00a0 <\/span>J. K. Rowling\u2019s term for \u201csnake-speech,\u201d parseltongue, doesn\u2019t actually appear in Book 1, Harry Potter agus an \u00d3rchloch<\/em><\/strong>, so, so far there is no precedent.\u00a0 <\/span>At any rate, it seems to fit the bill, at least as well as Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Menard\u2019s \u201cChoixpeau<\/em>\u201d (Sorting Hat) did for the French.\u00a0 <\/span>Who knows?\u00a0 <\/span>If M\u00e1ire Nic Mhaol\u00e1in, who translated Book 1 into Irish, ever does Book 2, maybe she\u2019ll go ahead and use this word!\u00a0 <\/span>Comparable compounds already in use for the same hissing language are \u201cFourchelang\u201d (Fraincis),<\/strong> Serpentese (Iod\u00e1ilis<\/strong>), Parselzunge (Gearm\u00e1inis<\/strong>) and Sisselspraak or Sisseltong (Ollainis<\/strong>).\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

N\u00f3ta gramada\u00ed: \u201cc\u00fapla\u201d<\/span><\/strong> is followed by the singular in Irish: c\u00fapla teanga, c\u00fapla duine, c\u00fapla cail\u00edn, c\u00fapla blaigeard, srl.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, well, this is still only barr an chnoic oighir.\u00a0 But, c\u00e9n dochar?\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve picked some representative figures here to illustrate someone saying they speak a given language.\u00a0 \u00a0 Is mise Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.\u00a0 Labhra\u00edm Gearm\u00e1inis. \u00a0 Is muide Asterix agus Obelix.\u00a0 Labhra\u00edmid Gaillis agus Laidin. \u00a0 Is mise Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 Labhra\u00edm…<\/p>\n

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