Favourite Irish word?

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??)

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Originally Posted by sirhamish

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

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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 ??

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Originally Posted by Gerrit

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 ??

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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

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

Go Halainn - beautiful

Pass deas.

Iontach-amazing, wonderful (that general idea)

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Originally Posted by Neish

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

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yeah one of my favourites aswell.

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by Gerrit

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

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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...

Flaithiúlach is my favourite.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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'.

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

That's "coill".

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Originally Posted by noby

Wouldn't the 'Cill' part be wood?

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

Coillte would be "wood"