Ar chuala aon duine seo ariamh cheana ?

Mac na n-óige slán

Well in Cork they say "Cockadoodledoo bai!" ref- the sminky shorts' cartoon

cucadúdaldú and bacbacbacbac.... I used to explain to the children when telling them stories about chickens or hens. Never heard anything 'official' either.

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

I passed cattle mooing today. And it occurred to me that they sounded nothing like saying "moo". But they were Charolais so maybe they were saying it in French

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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French - now there's a thought!!

...or maybe they were horses in disguise... LOL....

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

Do dhein, bhí sé ag Peig ná raibh.

Les vaches (including les charolaises) usually say 'meuh' or even 'meuuuuuuh'
(ps our grandmère comes from a village quite near to le Charollais)

Cork forms:

Bó: Sop, Sop
Gamhain: Suc, Suc
Capall: Pet, Pet
Muc: Hurrais, Hurrais
Cuíora: Siuain, Siuain
Cearca: Tiuc, Tiuc
Lachain: Fín, Fín
Géanna: Bead, Bead
Turcaithe: Píní, Píní
Gadhar: (Pé ainm a bheadh air)
Cat: Pís, bhís, Pussy; Murainn, Murainn, Murainn.

From Seanchas Amhlaoibh Í Luínse, p.122.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

Even animals have their own sub-dialects in Irish . I have been looking everywhere for Seanachas Amhlaoibh Í Luínse, but I don't trust the newer copies. The older ones were written in phonetic Irish and I don't trust the newer ones in case they have altered this approach. Could you tell me if your one is new and if it still has the phonetic spelling please Lon Dubh?

Cian

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Well, believe it or not, there is dialectal variation in how to call hens!
A chearca!
A chearcaibh!
e.t.c.

Depending on if you use the vocative plural, dative plural or nominative plural! (Of course
the vocative plural was originally the only one used.)

I even know Cavan Irish had completely different versions of the above (the Cavan speaker
on the Doegen tapes is a relation of mine.)

One near-universal in Irish is using "Hagha!" to tell animals to go away.

My version of Seanachas Amhlaoibh Í Luínse is a printing from 1980 which I got from Kenny's bookshop:
http://www.bookshop.kennys.ie/book/IE/9780906426043/Seanachas_Amhlaoibh__Lunse
The spelling is completely phonetic, "deep" Cork dialect.

I did get one of the new printings of Seanachas Ó Chairbre, it was also completely phonetic.

Seanachas Ó Chairbre is a very interesting book as the speaker has a very different collection
of traditional stories and lore to most Béaloideas collections. He grew up in an area quite different to
most of the Gaeltachtaí today and had an unusual career, but he was a seanachaí, so there are words
only to be found in that book. Pity they never published part II (the dictionary for it). I'll give some examples
of these words tomorrow, don't have the book on me right now.

(Personal Hobby of mine: Looking at the different regional variants of the song "An seanduine" in Folklore
collections. I have the Cairbre, Uíbh Ráthach, Músgraí, Corca Dhuibhne, Déise, Cois Fharraige, Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, Iorras and Aicill versions. All are quite different!)

All of this would make you think of the wealth of material we had when the whole island spoke Irish.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal