{"id":9285,"date":"2017-05-24T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:53:13","slug":"athleanuint-don-athleanuint-loistiocht-cuidpart-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/athleanuint-don-athleanuint-loistiocht-cuidpart-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlean\u00faint don Athlean\u00faint: L\u00f3ist\u00edocht (Cuid\/Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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One good glossary (gluais<\/strong>) deserves another, I suppose one might say.\u00a0 The last blogpost was a vocabulary round-up for the \u00a0post before that, which had managed to jump from discussing chips\/French fries to logistics (naisc th\u00edos<\/strong>). \u00a0Today we’ll continue with a follow-up to the follow-up (athlean\u00faint don athlean\u00faint<\/strong>) with further discussion of some of the vocabulary. And there are so many areas of interest that this post will be at least a two-parter, maybe three.<\/p>\n

Most of the key words in the last post (comhuaineach, grafaic, l\u00f3ist\u00edocht, pr\u00f3ise\u00e1il, veicteoireach<\/strong>) were pretty thoroughly discussed, but there are a few, especially from the graphic, that might bear further attention.\u00a0 In the discussion below, I’ve labeled the keywords here with letters (A – F), and within the category for lorries and trucks, I’ve labeled them further by number, because there are so many types!\u00a0 Today’s entry covers cogwheels, ships, trains, and drones, but our main emphasis for this and the next few posts will be on truck and lorries.\u00a0 Today we’ll just be able to do the tip of the iceberg as far as lorries go!\u00a0 N\u00edos m\u00f3 n\u00edos moille! <\/strong><\/p>\n

(A)\u00a0fiaclach<\/strong>, toothed, also used to describe “cogwheels”<\/p>\n

(B) roth<\/strong>, wheel, singular, with “rotha\u00ed<\/strong>” as the plural. Many of you may have read the Gaeltacht classic, Rotha M\u00f3r an tSaoil<\/em>. For a long time I took the literal translation for granted, “The great wheel of destiny\/life.”\u00a0 The official title of the translation, by the way, is completely different (“The Hard Road to Klondike”).\u00a0 Anyway, I then found myself thinking, “Why ‘rotha<\/strong>,’ not ‘roth<\/strong>‘?”\u00a0 The final “-a” looked like a possessive ending (for saying “of a wheel”), but if that were the case, then why would it be at the beginning of the phrase.\u00a0 So “rotha<\/strong>” is definitely the main subject , and lo and behold, “rotha<\/strong>” turns out to be a variant singular form.\u00a0 At any rate, “rotha\u00ed”<\/strong> is plural.<\/p>\n

So “cogwheel,” is “roth fiaclach<\/strong>,” (or it could be “rotha fiaclach<\/strong>” in dialect) and the phrase for “cogwheels” (plural) \u00a0is “rotha\u00ed fiaclacha<\/strong>,” as we saw in graphic from the last post.<\/p>\n

The methods of transportation shown in the graphic are probably pretty familiar but here’s a quick review. “Dr\u00f3n<\/strong>,” of course is fairly new and I wasn’t able to include one in the illustration (yet!).<\/p>\n

(C)<\/strong> long,<\/strong> ship, with the following forms:<\/p>\n

an long, the ship<\/p>\n

na loinge, of the ship<\/p>\n

na longa, the ships<\/p>\n

na long, of the ships<\/p>\n

(D) traein<\/strong>, train, with the following forms:<\/p>\n

an traein, the train<\/p>\n

na traenach, of the train (note how the “i” disappears)<\/p>\n

na traenacha, the trains<\/p>\n

na dtraenacha, of the trains<\/p>\n

(E) dr\u00f3n<\/strong>, drone, with the following forms:<\/p>\n

an dr\u00f3n, the drone<\/p>\n

an dr\u00f3in, of the drone<\/p>\n

na dr\u00f3in, the drones<\/p>\n

na ndr\u00f3n, of the drones<\/p>\n

(F) leora\u00ed<\/strong>, lorry, and trucail<\/strong>, truck: there’s a slew of interesting phrases based on “leora\u00ed<\/strong>” and “trucail<\/strong>,” and although it wasn’t included last time, we can add “truicl\u00edn<\/strong>,” which finally showed up a few years ago in some Irish dictionaries as the word for “pick-up truck.” I had actually wondered about “pick-up truck” for years, debating if there was some way to use the phrase “piocadh suas<\/strong>.” Anyway, let’s look at “leora\u00ed,<\/strong>” “trucail,<\/strong>” and “truicl\u00edn<\/strong>,” and a few of the contrasting phrases (articulated lorry\/artic, tractor-trailer\/semi\/semi-trailer truck).\u00a0 It also seems to me that sometimes the words “leora<\/strong>\u00ed” and “trucail<\/strong>” might be more interchangeable than the dictionaries and samples I’ve found indicate, especially in the Irish-speaking diaspora, where some folks, especially in the U.S. rarely think in terms of “leoraithe<\/strong>.”\u00a0 But I’ll attempt to give a usable introduction here.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(1) leora\u00ed,<\/strong> lorry<\/p>\n

an leora\u00ed, the lorry<\/p>\n

an leora\u00ed, of the lorry (same as above)<\/p>\n

na leoraithe, the lorries, which is the standard plural, but M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Siadhail, in his\u00a0Learning Irish<\/em>, listed “leora\u00eds<\/strong>” as the plural.\u00a0 For pronunciation, he indicates \/l’ori:s\/, not the “s” sound that usually comes after “i,” which would be slender (as in “uisce<\/strong>” or “feis<\/strong>“). \u00a0The pronunciation he indicates would be as in “piece” or “Reece” or “Rhys,” with a hard “s,” not a softer “z” sound as in “skis” or “bees.”<\/p>\n

na leoraithe, of the lorries, the same as above<\/p>\n

Some of the categories include:<\/p>\n

articulated lorry: leora\u00ed altach<\/strong>, pl: leoraithe altacha, lit. jointed lorry<\/p>\n

breakdown lorry or breakdown truck, i.e. a tow truck: leora\u00ed tarraingthe<\/strong>, pl: leoraithe tarraingthe, lit. lorry of pulling<\/p>\n

right-hand drive lorry: leora\u00ed deas-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>, pl: leoraithe deas-sti\u00fartha (as driven in Ireland, Britain, etc.).\u00a0 If I were just seeing the phrase “deas-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>” out of context, I might think it meant “well-steered,” since, technically, it does mean that also.<\/p>\n

And, although, I find no trace of the phrase online, it’s easy enough to predict: left-hand drive lorry, leora\u00ed cl\u00e9-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>, pl: leoraithe cl\u00e9-sti\u00fartha (as driven in the US, etc., but remember, Americans almost never say “lorry,” so we’ll repeat these phrases in the next blogpost, using “truck”!)<\/p>\n

For a “tipper lorry,” and other types of “trucks,” we’ll look at “trucail<\/strong>” and “truicl\u00edn,<\/strong>” as well as leoraithe<\/strong>, sa ch\u00e9ad bhlagmh\u00edr eile<\/strong>, which will start with uimhir a d\u00f3 san fhoshraith seo. SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naisc:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comhuaineach, Grafaic, L\u00f3ist\u00edocht, Pr\u00f3ise\u00e1il, Veicteoireach: Some Irish Vocabulary from the Previous Blog<\/a>\u00a0Posted by r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a> on May 21, 2017 in <\/span><\/p>\n

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