Favourite Irish word?

**Gerrit** · 01/01/2006, 11:33 PM

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** · 01/01/2006, 11:39 PM

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???

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?

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** · 02/01/2006, 5:34 AM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

OK, this is about sex, isn't it?

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

coiscini - contraceptives

Seans - chance

Marcaiocht - ride/sh@g/rumpy-pumpy

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

**Neish** · 02/01/2006, 1:07 PM

amad�n-Idiot Just love the word, mayb because I am one

**centre mid** · 02/01/2006, 1:19 PM

Go Halainn - beautiful

**geysir** · 02/01/2006, 1:33 PM

Pass deas.

**Maz** · 02/01/2006, 1:37 PM

Iontach-amazing, wonderful (that general idea)

**De Town** · 02/01/2006, 2:26 PM

Originally Posted by Neish

amad�n-Idiot Just love the word, mayb because I am one

yeah one of my favourites aswell.

Ludram�n (sp.) which also means idiot/fool is also a good one.

**twoenz** · 02/01/2006, 6:37 PM

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

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

**Gerrit** · 02/01/2006, 7:57 PM

Originally Posted by 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

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

**Macy** · 03/01/2006, 7:40 AM

Flaithi�lach is my favourite.

**dfx-** · 03/01/2006, 12:13 PM

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

**Hither green** · 03/01/2006, 12:17 PM

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

**finlma** · 03/01/2006, 12:19 PM

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** · 03/01/2006, 12:34 PM

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

**pineapple stu** · 03/01/2006, 12:39 PM

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** · 03/01/2006, 1:17 PM

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'.