{"id":8917,"date":"2017-02-16T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T17:32:47","slug":"cinealacha-frasaiochta-irish-terms-for-types-of-precipitation-rain-snow-sleet-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/cinealacha-frasaiochta-irish-terms-for-types-of-precipitation-rain-snow-sleet-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Cine\u00e1lacha Frasa\u00edochta (Irish Terms for Types of Precipitation: Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

C\u00e9n s\u00f3rt cloiche \u00ed sin sa phicti\u00far?\u00a0 Cloch shneachta.\u00a0 Sin ceann de na cine\u00e1lacha frasa\u00edochta a mbeidh muid ag caint f\u00fathu sa bhlagmh\u00edr seo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leis an fh\u00edrinne a dh\u00e9anamh, oighear at\u00e1 ann (sa chloch shneachta), in ionad sneachta, ach sin an t-ainm at\u00e1 ar an gcine\u00e1l frasa\u00edochta seo.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00d3s ag caint ar chlocha sneachta<\/strong> (hailstones) at\u00e1 muid, cad is ciall leis an<\/strong> “hail” sa Bh\u00e9arla<\/strong> “hailstone”?\u00a0Hmm, n\u00edl baint ar bith aige le ruda\u00ed mar<\/strong> “Hail fellow well met” n\u00f3<\/strong> “Hail and farewell” n\u00f3<\/strong> “Hail Mary” n\u00f3<\/strong> “Wassail.”\u00a0 An Sean-Bh\u00e9arla ar<\/strong> “frozen rain” at\u00e1 i gceist:<\/strong> h\u00e6gl<\/em>.\u00a0 D\u00e1la an sc\u00e9il, chun an Ghaeilge ar<\/strong> “Hail fellow well met,” “Hail and farewell,” “Hail Mary,” agus<\/strong> “Wassail” a fh\u00e1il<\/strong> — f\u00e9ach an n\u00f3ta th\u00edos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Seo ceithre chine\u00e1l frasa\u00edochta<\/strong> (precipitation), na pr\u00edomhchine\u00e1lacha, s\u00edlim, c\u00e9 go bhfuil fochatag\u00f3ir\u00ed ann<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1)) fearthainn n\u00f3 b\u00e1isteach<\/strong>: rain.\u00a0 Typically used in sentences like:<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 s\u00e9 ag cur fearthainne<\/strong> OR T\u00e1 s\u00e9 ag cur b\u00e1ist\u00ed<\/strong>, both of which mean, “It’s raining,” lit. “It is putting rain” (i.e the rain Is “precipitating,” if you will, downward from the sky)<\/p>\n

2)) sneachta<\/strong>: snow.\u00a0 Typically used in a sentence like “T\u00e1 s\u00e9 ag cur sneachta<\/strong>” (It’s snowing, lit. It’s “putting” snow).\u00a0 A little more dramatically, one might hear “ag pl\u00fachadh sneachta<\/strong>” (snowing heavily).<\/p>\n

3)) flichshneachta<\/strong>: sleet (fliuch<\/strong>, wet + sneachta<\/strong>, snow).\u00a0 Which, just to tantalize the mind, has at least two variants: flithshneachta<\/strong> and fleathshneachta<\/strong>.\u00a0 Why is this making me think of “Snip, Snap, Snorem?”\u00a0 And “Snipp, Snapp, Snurr”?\u00a0 \u00a0Hmmm, tripartite variations on a theme?\u00a0 Well, those three boys, Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr were Sualannach<\/strong> (Swedish), so I’m sure they had plenty of encounters with sneachta<\/strong>.\u00a0 And probably flichshneachta<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n

4)) cloichshneachta<\/strong>: hail.\u00a0 Hailstones themselves would be clocha sneachta<\/strong>.\u00a0 Notice that the lenition (shown by the inserted “h”) in “cloch shneachta<\/strong>” is gone, since we’re now dealing with the singular form of the noun (i.e. a single hailstone), not “hailstones.”<\/p>\n

And of course, there are subdivisions, like “draon\u00e1n b\u00e1ist\u00ed<\/strong>” (drizzly rain) and “b\u00e1isteach cheathach<\/strong>” (showery rain) and “fuarlach b\u00e1ist\u00ed<\/strong>” (torrential rain) and “guairne\u00e1n sneachta<\/strong>” (flurry of snow), but to attempt to cover all of those would be too much for one blogpost.<\/p>\n

It’s also probably worth mentioning frost here, although it doesn’t strike me as “precipitation” as such, since it doesn’t fall from the sky.\u00a0 At any rate, it’s “sioc<\/strong>,” often showing up in the phrase “ag cur seaca<\/strong>” (freezing, lit. “putting frost”).<\/p>\n

Bhuel, an “chonchl\u00faid bhunl\u00edne” anseo, fan tirim, agus b\u00edodh do sc\u00e1th fearthainne agat!\u00a0 – SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

N\u00f3ta:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hail fellow well met (mar aidiacht<\/strong>): m\u00f3r le ‘chuile dhuine, teannt\u00e1sach le ‘chuile dhuine<\/strong>\u00a0(gan tr\u00e1cht ar<\/strong> “hail” n\u00f3<\/strong> “fellow” n\u00f3<\/strong> “well” n\u00f3<\/strong> “met”)<\/p>\n

Hail and farewell:\u00a0 a) heileo agus sl\u00e1n<\/strong>, b) f\u00e1ilte romhat agus sl\u00e1n leat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hail Mary: a) ‘S\u00e9 do Bheatha, a Mhuire (mar bheannacht, .i. mar l\u00edne de th\u00e9acs na paidre)<\/strong>, b) \u00c1iv\u00e9 M\u00e1iria n\u00f3 \u00c1ibh\u00e9 M\u00e1iria<\/strong>\u00a0(mar theideal na paidre<\/strong>) c) F\u00e1ilte an Aingil<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wassail: “wassail,” go d\u00edreach mar at\u00e1 s\u00e9 i mB\u00e9arla mar is coincheap B\u00e9arla \u00e9 (amhr\u00e1in wassail, mar shampla) a thagann \u00f3<\/strong> “ves” (b\u00ed<\/strong>) agus<\/strong> “heill” (sl\u00e1inti\u00fail<\/strong>) sa tSean-Lochlainnis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) C\u00e9n s\u00f3rt cloiche \u00ed sin sa phicti\u00far?\u00a0 Cloch shneachta.\u00a0 Sin ceann de na cine\u00e1lacha frasa\u00edochta a mbeidh muid ag caint f\u00fathu sa bhlagmh\u00edr seo. Leis an fh\u00edrinne a dh\u00e9anamh, oighear at\u00e1 ann (sa chloch shneachta), in ionad sneachta, ach sin an t-ainm at\u00e1 ar an gcine\u00e1l frasa\u00edochta seo.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00d3s ag caint ar chlocha…<\/p>\n

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