{"id":9301,"date":"2017-05-27T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2017-06-16T22:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T22:42:27","slug":"athleanuint-don-athleanuint-loistiocht-agus-corais-iompair-cuidpart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/athleanuint-don-athleanuint-loistiocht-agus-corais-iompair-cuidpart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlean\u00faint don Athlean\u00faint: L\u00f3ist\u00edocht agus C\u00f3rais Iompair (Cuid\/Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Bhuel<\/strong>, last time we looked at various methods of transportation used in l\u00f3ist\u00edocht shlabhra an tsol\u00e1thair<\/strong>, as well as in “c\u00f3rais iompair go ginear\u00e1lta<\/strong>.” That post covered longa, traenacha, dr\u00f3in<\/strong>, and started with leoraithe<\/strong>.\u00a0 Today we’ll continue with “trucail\u00ed<\/strong>” and “truicl\u00edn\u00ed<\/strong>,” and look at when “lorry” or “truck” is used in English .\u00a0 It’s actually pretty complicated when you consider the variety of English names for the same type of vehicle (bin lorry \/ trash truck), but I’ll try to at least present some of the bunruda\u00ed<\/strong> here, and hope it will be reasonably useful for learners in Ireland and the UK, as well as in North America and other parts of the Irish language diaspora.<\/p>\n

Remember that “leoraithe<\/strong>” was numbered “1” last time, we’ll continue with “trucks” as number “2.”<\/p>\n

(2) \u00a0For “trucks,” there’s one main word (trucail<\/strong>), a few alternate choices, (truc, truicl\u00edn<\/strong>), and there’s always the fact that what might be called a “truck” in US English might be called a “lorry” in \u00a0Irish or UK English. \u00a0I always used to think of a “trucail<\/strong>” as a type of hand-truck or cart, but it seems like once the online dictionaries arrived, we got a whole flurry of “truck” words based on “trucail<\/strong>.” \u00a0Here are the main forms of the word, which is grammatically feminine:<\/p>\n

an trucail<\/strong>, the truck<\/p>\n

na trucaile<\/strong>, of the truck<\/p>\n

na trucail\u00ed<\/strong>, the trucks<\/p>\n

na dtrucail\u00ed<\/strong>, of the trucks<\/p>\n

Some examples include:<\/p>\n

cattle truck: trucail eallaigh<\/strong>, pl: trucail\u00ed eallaigh<\/strong><\/p>\n

refrigerator truck: trucail chuisni\u00fach\u00e1in<\/strong>, pl: trucail\u00ed cuisni\u00fach\u00e1in<\/strong>, lit. truck of refrigeration, with lenition of “cuisni\u00fach\u00e1in<\/strong>” after “trucail<\/strong>” because “trucail<\/strong>” is singular and, as noted above, grammatically feminine.<\/p>\n

right-hand drive truck: trucail dheas-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>, pl: trucail\u00ed deas-sti\u00fartha<\/strong><\/p>\n

left-hand drive truck: trucail chl\u00e9-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>, pl: trucail\u00ed cl\u00e9-sti\u00fartha<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those who care, I’ve found about equal usage of “c(h)l\u00e9-sti\u00fartha<\/strong>” (with “fleisc\u00edn<\/strong>“) and “c(h)l\u00e9sti\u00fartha<\/strong>” (no “fleisc\u00edn<\/strong>“), and both sample groups are quite small.\u00a0 I lean toward the leagan fleisc\u00ednithe<\/strong>, since I think it’s clearer (just like I prefer to say “man-eating” when discussing sharks, rather than “man eating” — just for clarity’s sake).<\/p>\n

(3) truicl\u00edn<\/strong>, a pick-up truck, or sometimes simply a small truck.\u00a0 This seems to be the most common word for a pick-up, but I do note that while the Collins Gem Irish Dictionary gives “truicl\u00edn<\/strong>” for “pick-up” even though it also lists “pick-up” as a secondary definition of “trucail<\/strong>” itself.\u00a0 It does get convoluted!\u00a0 Anyway, if we accept “truicl\u00edn<\/strong>” as a more specific term for “pick-up truck,” we have:<\/p>\n

an truicl\u00edn<\/strong>, the pick-up\/small truck<\/p>\n

an truicl\u00edn<\/strong>, of the pick-up\/small truck<\/p>\n

na truicl\u00edn\u00ed<\/strong>, the pick-up\/small trucks<\/p>\n

na dtruicl\u00edn\u00ed<\/strong>, of the pick-up\/small trucks<\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0 And then there’s “truc<\/strong>,”, which I’ve almost never heard in daily life, especially for a physical truck.\u00a0 It can also mean “dealing,” in the sense that Doc Velie used in the 1955 movie, Bad Day at Black Rock<\/em>, “I don’t hold no truck with silence.”\u00a0 For a physical truck, de Bhaldraithe’s English-Irish Dictionary<\/em> does list this entry, “truc ag imeacht ceann scaoilte<\/strong>” (runaway truck, lit. a truck going “head-released”).\u00a0 But, though a valuable classic of lexicography, de Bhaldraithe’s dictionary does date from 1959, so it seems like the meaning has mostly shifted away from “truc<\/strong>” for an actual truck. \u00a0And there are occasional listings of “truc tuisil<\/strong>” for “dumptruck,” but that’s the only example I’ve found so far for “truc<\/strong>” to indicate a category or function of the vehicle. \u00a0This word also has no plural, according to various dictionaries I looked at, again suggesting little use for a physical \u00a0vehicle.\u00a0 Of course, that doesn’t mean we couldn’t stick a plural ending on it if we wanted to but it wouldn’t be typical of actual usage.\u00a0 So far, all I’ve found for this noun grammar-wise is that it’s fourth declension, with the exact same spelling (truc<\/strong>) for “of truck.”<\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0 Finally, we’ll mention here a few other types of trucks\/lorries:<\/p>\n

For a dump truck or tipper truck or tipper lorry, there are at least three choices: dumpaire, trucail dump\u00e1la<\/strong>, and the one stray usage I’ve found for “truc<\/strong>” as a category of vehicle, “truc tuisil.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

For a bin lorry or refuse lorry or trash truck or garbage truck: leora\u00ed bruscair<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for “monster truck,” we have the same prefix used for “university” (ollscoil<\/strong>) and “supermarket” (ollmhargadh<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

an olltrucail<\/strong>, the monster truck<\/p>\n

na holltrucaile<\/strong>, of the monster truck (rotha\u00ed na holltrucaile<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

na holltrucail\u00ed<\/strong>, the monster trucks<\/p>\n

na n-olltrucail\u00ed<\/strong>, of the monster trucks (Se\u00f3 na n-olltrucail\u00ed<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Oddly, if we were talking specifically about monster pick-up trucks, we’d have “olltruicl\u00edn\u00ed<\/strong>,” combining a prefix to indicate great size (oll-<\/strong>) with a suffix to indicate small size (-\u00edn<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

And if we were talking about miniature monster pick-up trucks, we could have “mionolltruicl\u00edn\u00ed<\/strong>,” which seems like a tautology, but isn’t!<\/p>\n

Well, sin \u00e9<\/strong> for today’s post, that’s a bit more vocab for l\u00f3ist\u00edocht<\/strong> (logistics).\u00a0 Anyone work in the field?\u00a0 In 2014, Fortune magazine reported that about 6 million people were employed in logistics in America alone, so it seems like a pretty good field to be in (http:\/\/fortune.com\/2014\/05\/01\/wanted-1-4-million-new-supply-chain-workers-by-2018\/)<\/p>\n

Somehow, I don’t think l\u00f3ist\u00edocht shlabhra an tsol\u00e1thair<\/strong> was much of an occupation for the SeanGhaeil<\/strong>, but after all, they did have carranna<\/strong> (in the old sense, “carts,”), cairteacha<\/strong> (another word for “carts”), bara\u00ed<\/strong> (wheelbarrows), and carranna sleamhn\u00e1in<\/strong> (sledges), as well as dromanna daoine<\/strong> and dromanna capall<\/strong>, not to mention ciseanna<\/strong> and cl\u00e9ibh<\/strong>.\u00a0 And somehow the SeanCheiltigh<\/strong> moved themselves from their continental European homeland to Britain and Ireland, which must have taken quite a bit of supply chain management, as it were, back in the day.<\/p>\n

I wonder if there are any advertisements in Gaelic for TruckNess, which has been held in Inverness since 2013.\u00a0 If so, if would be interesting to see how they would handle “truck” in Gaelic. \u00a0Of course, they might simply say “Truck.”\u00a0 The “Ness” part apparently means “roaring one,” which seems reasonably appropriate for a truck rally.\u00a0 This sentence, describing the event, would seem to sum up the seamless transition we may find between truck and lorry: “Trucks, truckers and truck fans descend on Bogbain for a day and night of Lorry Loving!” (http:\/\/whatsonhighlands.com\/listings\/1390-truckness-2013).<\/p>\n

On that note, we’ll keep truckin’ along (I don’t suppose we can say, “lorrying along” — or can we?), studying Irish vocabulary focal i ndiaidh focail<\/strong>, or, in this case, trucail i ndiaidh trucaile<\/strong>.\u00a0 There’s probably one more blogpost’s worth here on c\u00f3rais iompair<\/strong>, and then we’ll move on to some completely different “\u00e1bhar<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Hope you’ve been enjoying it — if so, please remember to “like” this post.\u00a0\u00a0 SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Bhuel, last time we looked at various methods of transportation used in l\u00f3ist\u00edocht shlabhra an tsol\u00e1thair, as well as in “c\u00f3rais iompair go ginear\u00e1lta.” That post covered longa, traenacha, dr\u00f3in, and started with leoraithe.\u00a0 Today we’ll continue with “trucail\u00ed” and “truicl\u00edn\u00ed,” and look at when “lorry” or “truck” is used in English .\u00a0…<\/p>\n

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