Favourite Irish word?

[blutil]

my mate just asked me whats your favourite word in the Irish language ?
thought id just throw one out but im stumped, fuinneog is pretty cool i suppose :eek:

[sligoman]

It's gotta be feiceann:cool::p.

[Raheny Red]

Siucra - correct me if this is mispelt - sugar is what I'm looking for!!

[Snoop Drog]

bualadh bos (as in a round of applause)


Dunno why but I love this phrase :D

[hamish]

coiscini :D heh heh

[Kingdom]

Ruaille buaille!

[Gareth]

Weather Forecast - Rave Nawsh Naysh na Hymhsura :)

[Partizan]

The Irish language is pretty cool in itself. What annoys me though is the negative attitude that many people have against it.

Then again I cant blame them since successive governments do sfa to redress the way its thought in schools doing it a huge damage.

come to think of it....Jesus Holy, cant wait for these shower to go. Unbelievably incompetent

[Gareth]

Article in the Independent today talks about our stance on we are Irish, but mainly not English and that is the sole reason the Irish language is still around. Cos it makes us not English :) I do not know enough to hold a 1 minute conversation. At best I could of managed a 3 minute one once. Maybe in 6th class.

[Rory H]

ar nos na gaoithe..as quick as the wind

not a word i know.....its 4;)

[soccerc]

Meithil

[De Town]

smig - chin

I'm fairly handy at Irish myself.....Had a conversation with a friend on the phone for about 10 minutes straight until I just hung up:D

[hamish]

smig - chin

I'm fairly handy at Irish myself.....Had a conversation with a friend on the phone for about 10 minutes straight until I just hung up

Not the way I heard it de Town

I believe SHE hung up when you used your favourite Irish word -

I mean, what did you expect when you asked her

Any seans of a marcaiocht???:p :D

In those situations, always make sure you have a packet of coiscini in yer pocket, in case you get lucky.:D

[Drumcondra Red]

Ri-ra agus ruaille buaille!!!

Focal :D

[the 12 th man]

I hear this on the radio most mornings but I've no idea what it means...............nead na fuisoige or something??..:o

[Risteard]

otharcarr.

As in An Timpiste essay,
Go tobann, i breap na suile, lig me beic as.
Thainig an otharcarr.

[JoeSemi]

Focal and bolg

Good, harsh sounding words that make the Irish language what it is.

[thejollyrodger]

FOCAL cos its sounds like you are telling everyone where to go.

Seriously,,, Irish language is class

[Anto McC]

Id love to learn Irish fluently,might make it my new years resolution.........for 2007 :D Im busy this year :o

[Maz]

Is buachaill leisciúil tú

[Gerrit]

This is a very un-immigrant-friendly thread ;) At least post the translations, this reads as fluent as Chinese or Swahili to me ... :d


I'll go for the one word I know : slainte!

(I know some names: Beal Feirste, Baile Atha Cliath, Gaillimh, Corcaig, Doire,... but those are not really words. And how is Kildare again? Cial Dara??)

[Gerrit]

Not the way I heard it de Town

I believe SHE hung up when you used your favourite Irish word -

I mean, what did you expect when you asked her

Any seans of a marcaiocht???:p :D

In those situations, always make sure you have a packet of coiscini in yer pocket, in case you get lucky

OK, this is about sex, isn't it? :D The context make me assume that anyway...


I remember a few words now, from the Luas stops in Dublin... Cuirts was Four Courts? Ospitael was an easy one (Tallaght Hospital), Tamh Lachta for the Square, ...


I wouldn't know what it means, but I remember having listened a while to the "Bamba Oir" album by Clannad...
Doesn't U2 have a song in Irish as well? "An Cat Dubh" or so ??

[hamish]

OK, this is about sex, isn't it? :D The context make me assume that anyway...


I remember a few words now, from the Luas stops in Dublin... Cuirts was Four Courts? Ospitael was an easy one (Tallaght Hospital), Tamh Lachta for the Square, ...


I wouldn't know what it means, but I remember having listened a while to the "Bamba Oir" album by Clannad...
Doesn't U2 have a song in Irish as well? "An Cat Dubh" or so ??

Gerrit - specially for you - translation:D

coiscini - contraceptives

Seans - chance

Marcaiocht - ride/sh@g/rumpy-pumpy

Yeah, you're right - sex was involved. LOL:D

[Neish]

amadán-Idiot Just love the word, mayb because I am one

[centre mid]

Go Halainn - beautiful

[geysir]

Pass deas.

[Maz]

Iontach-amazing, wonderful (that general idea)

[De Town]

amadán-Idiot Just love the word, mayb because I am one
yeah one of my favourites aswell.

Ludramán (sp.) which also means idiot/fool is also a good one.

[twoenz]

Buscar Bruscar (or however the thing's spelt.)

The best word ever has to be the German for Ambulance: Krankenwagon.

[Gerrit]

Doesn't U2 have a song in Irish as well? "An Cat Dubh" or so ??

I looked it up today, apparently it means "a black cat"? I always thought it was "a cat from Dublin" or so :o

Is the song in Gaelic or English? I believe Bono also did an Irish folk song in Gaelic as a once-off...

[Macy]

Flaithiúlach is my favourite.

[dfx-]

Bualadh bos would be up there....but 'sneachta' gets my vote...

[Hither green]

Uisce beatha... don't drink it myself, I just love the way it sounds.

[finlma]

It would have to be gabhal (pronounced ghowl) for me. Its great used in an English slag as in "you gabhal you".

The litteral translation is a fork in a tree but you can use your imagination as to what its really used for.

[Hither green]

Or "banyan na mo if an ganna" (although I put that down to having to listen to Val Doonican as a child) :D

[pineapple stu]

Staighre beo. Meaning escalator. Literally "the living stairs". Quality!

For Gerrit - Kildare is Cill Dara (Dara's Fort). There's no such language as Gaelic - Gaelic is a group of languages which includes Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx and others. Just one of those things which annoys me!

[noby]

Wouldn't the 'Cill' part be wood?

I was once told, but can't remember now, the old Irish word for 'stale urine'. It scares me to think that, as a nation, we had a necessity for one word to describe 'stale urine'.

[Spudd]

Ispini agus subh....sausages and jam!
Twas a textbook we read in school....

[pineapple stu]

That's "coill".

[finlma]

Wouldn't the 'Cill' part be wood?


Cill is a church I thought. Cill Chainnigh (Kilkenny) is the Church of Canice.

Coillte would be "wood"

[pineapple stu]

Coillte is woods - the plural. Dún is a fort. English-Irish dictionary (http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary) translates Cill as a cell...? Church is eaglais.

[noby]

Fair enough. A lot of places around here that start with 'Kil' have been derived from coill, so I just assumed Kildare was the same.

[Schumi]

Church is eaglais.
Also Cill I think. There's probably some small distinction between the two.

[strangeirish]

Gachtarbh=Bullsh*t? According to one of my gaeltacht friends.

[oconghc2]

cacamais! (cok-a-mish)

= sh1te

as in that last performance was pure cacamais! irish is much more expressive than english i reckon - when you hear someone loosin the head in irish its nearly poetic! - sure the way we speak english is nearly completely influenced by irish.

an old website - few interesting things on it maybe - pac man in irish!

http://www.craiceailte.com

[OwlsFan]

clogadan = blockhead (one step up from amadan)

[pineapple stu]

Gachtarbh=Bullsh*t? According to one of my gaeltacht friends.
Cac tarbh. Tarbh = bull, cac = sh!t.


Also Cill I think.

Fair enough. A lot of places around here that start with 'Kil' have been derived from coill, so I just assumed Kildare was the same.
Here (http://www.loughman.dna.ie/general/placenames.html) we go. Cill is indeed church (that translator site is partly subscription based, so you must have to pay to get that translation!), but places like Kilclare, Kilgowan, Killylea and Kilturk are from Coill, not Cill.

[strangeirish]

Cac tarbh. Tarbh = bull, cac = sh!t.


Close enough I suppose. Gach does mean every, as in gach lá = every day.

[Dillo]

Conas ata d'athair, ag marcaiocht, pog mo hole,

[Superhoops]

Or "banyan na mo if an ganna" (although I put that down to having to listen to Val Doonican as a child) :D
I think this one is 'bainne an bho 'us an gabhar', translated as 'cow's milk and goat's (milk)'. The line of the song to my memory is:
'bainne an bho 'us an gabhar and the juice of the barley for me!'