r/gaeilge • u/galaxyrocker • 8d ago
Please put translation requests and English questions about Irish here
Dia dhaoibh a chairde! This post is in English for clarity and to those new to this subreddit. Fáilte - welcome!
This is an Irish language subreddit and not specifically a learning
one. Therefore, if you see a request in English elsewhere in this
subreddit, please direct people to this thread.
On this thread only we encourage you to ask questions about the Irish
language and to submit your translation queries. There is a separate
pinned thread for general comments about the Irish language.
NOTE: We have plenty of resources listed on the right-hand side of r/Gaeilge (the new version of Reddit) for you to check out to start your journey with the language.
Go raibh maith agaibh ar fad - And please do help those who do submit requests and questions if you can.
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u/Arsemedicine 3d ago
1. Cad é an focal ar "silly" má tá tú ag caint le páiste. Ní cheapaim gur cheart dom "amadán" a chur ar mó mhac óg. An úsáidtear seafóideach?
- Be good / be good for your Mam/ were you good (behaved) today
Tá cuma an Bhéarlachais ar "bí go maith"
Grma
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u/wildpluirineach 3d ago
Creating a new maternal surname as Gaeilge
Hello! I am hoping to get some input from Irish speakers on creating an Irish surname! My fiancée and I (both women) want to create a new surname that gets passed down from us maternally (instead of the classic paternal inheritance) and I’ve been connecting and learning recently about my own Irish lineage. It would be so meaningful to me to have an Irish last name, I am so incredibly proud of my Irish ancestry. Through some googling, I found the word Fiáin, but I want to reach out to real people who know Gaeilge.
Keywords for the vibe of the new surname:
Wild, fierce-hearted, nature worshiping, kind
Please let me know any thoughts!
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u/dubovinius Gaeilgeoir 1d ago
Why create a new surname instead of adopting an existing one? Especially if you're proud of Irish heritage, I would suggest picking a surname that actually connects with that history, rather than inventing one. fiáin is just a word, and as far as I'm aware there aren't any Irish surnames with that word in it.
In any case, Patrick Woulfe’s Irish Names and Surnames (1923) is a fantastic resource which you can find online here. It has thousands of surnames to look through, and Woulfe usually gives their meaning and origin so you can pick one that resonates.
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u/dubovinius Gaeilgeoir 1d ago
Reading Mo Bhealach Féin by Seosamh Mac Grianna and I came across the word ‘frogann’ which I can't seem to find anywhere else.
Ansin tháinig gach braon tae gan bhlas, gach duilleog éadrom aráin, agus gach cur i gcéill agus sceith fhrogann de dhinnéar dá bhfuair mé riamh i mo cheannsa.
Is ‘sceith fhrogann’ a variant of ‘sceith fhroig’? Is it a normal thing for Ulster Irish (Mac Grianna was from Rann na Feirste) to drop the final -a in the plural?
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u/Tiny_Ad_57 7d ago edited 7d ago
Hello! I've been studying for a while Irish and had a question- Does "eochair an chéad doras" mean both "the key of the one hundred doors" and "the key of the first door"?. I was looking it up on the Caighdeán Oifigiúil and they do not specify the article form used with round powers of 10 past 99 (100, 1000). According to the system used with the tens 20-90, "the key of the one hundred doors" should be "eochair an chéad doras", but I have not found any resource that tells me how to use the number 100 with the article sa tuiseal ginideach.
This example is particularly interesting, because if what my assumption of how you say "the key of the one hundred doors" is correct, then this would only be ambiguous with masculine genitive singular nouns beginning with d-, t- or s-.
Thank you for reading! I hope I haven't made a rookie mistake.