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Need a Franco-Irish play on words.

  • 11-04-2014 6:05pm
    #1
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭


    Bit of a long shot, but maybe the combined brains of boards.ie can help. I'm looking for a bilingual play on words as the name of an Irish retail & exhibition space in France. I'm trying to find a phrase in Irish that sounds like the French peu d'Irlande. The first part of the phrase, in French, is Un petit contracted to the colloquial un 'tit which I can make into the Irish An tí ... and that's as far as it goes.

    Can any of you gaeilgeoirs see/hear an Irish phrase that would fit?


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  • #2
    mr chips
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭mr chips


    So your French phrase is - Un 'tit peu d'Irlande", and you want something in Irish that sounds the same and also has meaning in Irish? Tbh I'm afraid it's unlikely to work. "Tí" on its own means a golf tee, but would be more generally understood as the genitive version of "teach", the word for house (doras an tí - the door of the house) - this won't make sense in isolation.


  • #3
    pog it
    Registered Users Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Something with "lán de" at the end of it might work for Irlande.
    "lán go draid" is full to the brim.

    Sorry! :)


  • #4
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Don't be - that's the kind of lateral thinking I'm looking for! My Irish is just a bit too rusty to be able to pick out the syllables that might make for a meaningful play on words. If it has to be turned back to front, that's no problem - we'll make it a talking point.


  • #5
    pog it
    Registered Users Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    An tír seo 'is lán de.

    Or

    A lán den tír seo.


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