{"id":9717,"date":"2017-10-07T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:04:22","slug":"how-to-say-rat-in-irish-and-a-continuation-of-the-glossary-for-an-piobaire-breac-an-t-aistriuchan-le-sean-o-durois-cuid-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/how-to-say-rat-in-irish-and-a-continuation-of-the-glossary-for-an-piobaire-breac-an-t-aistriuchan-le-sean-o-durois-cuid-44\/","title":{"rendered":"How to say ‘rat’ in Irish and a continuation of the glossary for ‘An P\u00edobaire Breac’ (an t-aistri\u00fach\u00e1n le Se\u00e1n \u00d3 D\u00farois (Cuid 4\/4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Seo an chuid dheireanach den ghluais don d\u00e1n “An P\u00edobaire Breac”<\/strong> (The Pied Piper) a tosa\u00edodh c\u00fapla seachtain \u00f3 shin (naisc th\u00edos).\u00a0 T\u00e1 s\u00fail agam go raibh seans agaibh an t-aistri\u00fach\u00e1n le Se\u00e1n \u00d3 D\u00farois a fh\u00e1il (eolas foilseach\u00e1in th\u00edos) agus \u00e9 a l\u00e9amh.\u00a0 N\u00f3 b’fh\u00e9idir \u00e9 a \u00fas\u00e1id i rang.\u00a0 D\u00e1la an sc\u00e9il, baineann na huimhreacha <\/strong>“stanza” anseo leis an leagan Gaeilge, n\u00ed leis an leagan B\u00e9arla (t\u00e1 difr\u00edochta\u00ed ann).\u00a0 Leis an fh\u00edrinne a dh\u00e9anamh, n\u00edor cl\u00f3bhualadh an leagan Gaeilge le huimhreacha ar bith, ach chuir m\u00e9 leis iad do na blagmh\u00edreanna seo. Freisin, t\u00e1 logainmneacha sa leagan B\u00e9arla nach bhfuil sa leagan Gaeilge (<\/strong>Asia, Tartary, Koppelberg Hill, Brunswick) agus t\u00e1 c\u00fapla logainm sa leagan Gaeilge nach bhfuil sa leagan B\u00e9arla (an \u00cdoslainn, <\/strong>Ljubljana\/Li\u00faible\u00e1na).\u00a0 Saoirse an fhile (n\u00f3 an aistritheora), is d\u00f3cha.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the title of this post still mentions rats, as covered earlier in this mionsraith<\/strong>, here’s a quick review of terms for “rat” in Irish: francach, luch mh\u00f3r, luch fhrancach<\/strong>, and luch\u00f3g mh\u00f3r<\/strong>.\u00a0 For more on these, please see the previous blogposts (naisc th\u00edos, mar a d\u00faradh thuas<\/strong>) .<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s the “gluais<\/strong>“:<\/p>\n

Stanza 15: Hur\u00e1<\/strong>, not too surprisingly, means “Hurrah!” or “Hurray!”\u00a0 Another word with a similar meaning is “Ab\u00fa<\/strong>!” (“Hurray for … !”\u00a0 “Hurrah …!”\u00a0 “Up with\u00a0 …!” or “… forever!”)\u00a0 but this one always has the name of the person, place, or organization being cheered in front of it, as in “Albain ab\u00fa<\/strong>!” or the well-known song by Michael Joseph McCann (1824-1833), “O’Donnell Aboo!” (sometimes also written as “O’Donnell Ab\u00fa!” even though the lyrics are in English).<\/p>\n

Stanza 15: go dt\u00ed<\/strong>, often learned first as “to” (as in “go dt\u00ed an Sp\u00e1inn,<\/strong>” to Spain), but it can also mean “until,” as in “… go dt\u00ed gur chuimhnigh s\u00e9 go tobann ar an airgead<\/strong>.”)<\/p>\n

Stanza 16: There’s quite a difference in his pay (a ph\u00e1<\/strong>), if he gets the agreed-upon price, m\u00edle bonn \u00f3ir<\/strong> (1000 gold coins) as compared to what the deceitful mayor is willing to pay in the end, caoga bonn \u00f3ir<\/strong> (50 gold coins).\u00a0 Ironically, the Piper had only asked for “dh\u00e1 ch\u00e9ad bonn (\u00f3ir)<\/strong>” (200 (gold) coins) initially, not a thousand).<\/p>\n

Stanza 17: Two words I’ve heard mostly in the Donegal dialect, “fosta<\/strong>” meaning “also” (the more widely learned word is “freisin<\/strong>“) and “crosta<\/strong>,” meaning “cross” (or: bad-tempered, peevish, fractious, and less related to our immediate context: cryptic, taboo).<\/p>\n

Stanza 18: ina staic<\/strong>, used with the verb “to leave” (f\u00e1g\u00e1il<\/strong>), rooted to the spot, essentially, I would say, like a stake, i.e. stock still.<\/p>\n

Stanza 18: cluain<\/strong>, deceit, beguilement; completely different from another “cluain,<\/strong>” which means “meadow” or “pasture,” as in “Cluain Ard<\/strong>” (Clonard) or “Cluain Meala<\/strong>” (Clonmel)<\/p>\n

Stanza 19: r\u00faid<\/strong>, charge, rush, as in “Th\u00e1inig siad de r\u00faid<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Stanza 19: shlog<\/strong>, swallowed, as in “Shlog s\u00e9 a n-in\u00edonacha agus a mic<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Remember, “s\u00e9<\/strong>” here refers to “an toll\u00e1n i l\u00e1r an chnoic<\/strong>.”\u00a0 And also remember, re: pronunciation, the initial “s” is now silent.\u00a0 So “shlog<\/strong>” joins the relatively small number of words, globally speaking, that start with an “hl” sounds, most of the rest of which that I can find are either Slavic (like Czech “hlad<\/em>” for “hunger” or “hlas<\/em>” for “voice”) or Old Norse (Hlidskjalf<\/em>, the seat of Odin), with an occasional foray into Swazi (e.g. the place name “Hlatikulu<\/em>“).\u00a0 A few examples of this sound in Irish, all with the silent “s” are “a shlabhra<\/strong>” (his chain), “a shloinne<\/strong>” (his surname), and “a shluasaid<\/strong>” (his shovel).\u00a0 And then, just for fun, let me point out this acronym, but I really haven’t got a clue how to pronounce it, whether it should be like a word (as we do with “NATO”) or as individual letters (as we do with “FBI”): HLOLARAWCHAWMP (Hysterically \u00a0Laughing \u00a0Out \u00a0Loud\u00a0 and\u00a0 Rolling \u00a0Around \u00a0While \u00a0Clapping \u00a0Hands \u00a0and \u00a0Wetting \u00a0My \u00a0Pants).<\/p>\n

Stanza 20: mar<\/strong>, here used for “where,” though, as a separate word, it can also mean “because” or “as.”\u00a0 Seo sampla \u00f3n d\u00e1n: mar a mb\u00edonn an ghrian ag soilsi\u00fa gach aon l\u00e1<\/strong> (where the sun shines every single day) — curious because this “t\u00edr gheal na n-iontas<\/strong>” is actually inside a hill, but then maybe there could be artificial underground suns. \u00a0Or maybe it’s the “gile<\/strong>” (brightness) at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

Stanza 21: bhric<\/strong>\u00a0(foirm den fhocail “breac”<\/strong>). “Rabhadh!\u00a0 Rabhadh!\u00a0 (mar a d\u00e9arfadh an R\u00f3bat sa chl\u00e1r teilif\u00edse<\/strong> Lost in Space<\/em>) … Aidiacht sa Tuiseal Ginideach!<\/strong>” Often one of the last grammatical features of Irish to be taught (Ceachtanna 68-69 as 72 sa leabhar<\/strong> Progress in Irish<\/em>, mar shampla<\/strong>), adjectives can change when used in a possessive phrase, like “the hat of the small boy” (hata an bhuachalla bhig<\/strong>) or “the hat of the small woman” (hata na mn\u00e1 bige<\/strong>), where “beag<\/strong>” (small) changes to “bhig<\/strong>” or “bige<\/strong>” respectively.\u00a0 In stanza 21 of the poem, we have “bhric<\/strong>,” the “tuiseal ginideach, firinscneach<\/strong>” for “breac<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Remember, the “bh” is pronounced like a “v” here. \u00a0\u00a0The full phrase is “Sr\u00e1id an Ph\u00edobaire Bhric<\/strong>” (The Street of the Pied Piper, or, as it would probably be called, “Pied Piper Street”).<\/p>\n

Stanza 21: an Trasalv\u00e1in<\/strong>.\u00a0 Hmm, from pipers to vampire territory!\u00a0 The poem concludes that the Piper had led the children to Transylvania (an Trasalv\u00e1in<\/strong>).\u00a0 So did they become vaimpir\u00ed<\/strong>?\u00a0 At any rate, that sounds like a good topic to explore for some future blogposts, especially considering that Bram Stoker was Irish!<\/p>\n

Stanza 22: de r\u00e9ir do bhriathair<\/strong>.\u00a0 Most of us learn the word “briathar<\/strong>” as “verb,” as in “briathra neamhrialta<\/strong>” (irregular verbs).\u00a0 But it can also mean “word,” as in this phrase “de r\u00e9ir do bhriathair<\/strong>” (according to your word).\u00a0 Similarly, there is the phrase “Dar mo bhriathar!<\/strong>”\u00a0 (My word!)<\/p>\n

Bhuel, sin sin don ghluais agus t\u00e1 s\u00fail agam gur spreag s\u00e9 th\u00fa le “An P\u00edobaire Breac” a l\u00e9amh.\u00a0 T\u00e1 a l\u00e1n d\u00e1nta deasa suimi\u00fala greannmhara eile sa leabhar.\u00a0 Is fi\u00fa m\u00f3r \u00e9 a fh\u00e1il.\u00a0 SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naisc<\/p>\n

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Whose beret?\u00a0 Bair\u00e9ad an fhrancaigh n\u00f3 bair\u00e9ad an Fhrancaigh?\u00a0 N\u00f3 bair\u00e9ad an ph\u00fadail?\u00a0 (Showing possession in Irish)<\/strong><\/a>Posted by\u00a0r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a>\u00a0on Sep 28, 2017 in\u00a0Irish Language<\/a><\/p>\n

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(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Seo an chuid dheireanach den ghluais don d\u00e1n “An P\u00edobaire Breac” (The Pied Piper) a tosa\u00edodh c\u00fapla seachtain \u00f3 shin (naisc th\u00edos).\u00a0 T\u00e1 s\u00fail agam go raibh seans agaibh an t-aistri\u00fach\u00e1n le Se\u00e1n \u00d3 D\u00farois a fh\u00e1il (eolas foilseach\u00e1in th\u00edos) agus \u00e9 a l\u00e9amh.\u00a0 N\u00f3 b’fh\u00e9idir \u00e9 a \u00fas\u00e1id i rang.\u00a0 D\u00e1la an…<\/p>\n

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