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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Tue 06 Oct 2015 3:45 am 
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franc 91 wrote:
For the word scaibhtéara or scabhaire - wouldn't that come from the English word 'scab/scabby' - a strikebreaker which also has the more general meaning of someone of ill repute, unreliable, untrustworthy ?

There's no /b/ in these words; the bh there is just a means of representing a diphthong (/ai/ or /au/ depending on dialect).


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Wed 14 Oct 2015 4:57 pm 
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...ach taitníonn muintir an tí seo go maith liom féin bíodh is nach nach bhfuil aon cheo bog ag baint leo, fearacht an chuid is mó de na Polannaigh.

Diabhal ciall is féidir liom a bhaint as an bpíosa so i gcló trom.


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Wed 14 Oct 2015 8:42 pm 
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Domhnaillín Breac wrote:
...ach taitníonn muintir an tí seo go maith liom féin bíodh is nach nach bhfuil aon cheo bog ag baint leo, fearacht an chuid is mó de na Polannaigh.

Diabhal ciall is féidir liom a bhaint as an bpíosa so i gcló trom.


bíodh is nach = although not ("be it (even so) that not ...")

(double nach is a typo, I'd guess)

ceo = nothing,
aon cheo bog = nothing at all

bain le = touch, concern, interfere, relate to,

Depending on context: ... though nothing at all interferes, relates, concerns them, is connected with them


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Sun 18 Oct 2015 1:59 am 
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Found out that the word "pincher" was also applied, sometimes, to a general (heavy) labourer.


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 3:08 am 
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Sliocht mearaithe eile. Tá mo dhuine gofa isteach i dtigh tábhairne i mbolg an lae.

"Casadh John Delia ansin orainn agus go leor eile as Conamara, agus mura raibh 'game' ann ní lá go maidin é."


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 6:44 pm 
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Domhnaillín Breac wrote:
Sliocht mearaithe eile. Tá mo dhuine gofa isteach i dtigh tábhairne i mbolg an lae.

"Casadh John Delia ansin orainn agus go leor eile as Conamara, agus mura raibh 'game' ann ní lá go maidin é."



I'm not familiar with "game" but I'm guessing it means the same as "craic".


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 7:52 pm 
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Bríd Mhór wrote:
Domhnaillín Breac wrote:
Sliocht mearaithe eile. Tá mo dhuine gofa isteach i dtigh tábhairne i mbolg an lae.

"Casadh John Delia ansin orainn agus go leor eile as Conamara, agus mura raibh 'game' ann ní lá go maidin é."

I'm not familiar with "game" but I'm guessing it means the same as "craic".

That was my assumption, too, but I don't understand the connexion between this and the rest of the sentence. Is ní lá go maidin é an idiom of some sort?


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 8:58 pm 
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Domhnaillín Breac wrote:
Is ní lá go maidin é an idiom of some sort?


Cor cainte atá ann - nár tháinig mise trasna go dtí seo. Cuid mhór samplaí de le fáil ach 'ní lá go maidin é' a ghúgláil.

Níl 'ní lá go maidin é' ag FGB ná ag De Bhaldraithe, áfach: FGB - ''ni lá go fóill é'; De Bhaldraithe - 'ní lá fós é'


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 9:18 pm 
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I've heard that often, maybe it's a Conamarism. But I couldn't explain where exactly it comes from.

http://www.focloir.ie/en/dictionary/ei/ ... ing-if-not


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 Post subject: Re: Dialann Deoraí
PostPosted: Fri 23 Oct 2015 10:03 pm 
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Go raibh maith agaibh, a chairde. Ní fhaca an cor cainte sin riamh, go bhfios dom. An chéad údar as Conamara a léas, 'sé Mac Amhlaigh é.


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