Maigh Nuad

Nimrod's Son · 09-12-2005 4:27pm #1

What does "Maigh Nuad" literally translate as? My Gaeilge obviously isn't as good as I thought it was.

Outcast · 09-12-2005 9:24pm

Couldn't tell you. But do you know that on the lectern in the main theatre in the Hume it says Ollscoil Ma Nuad. Pretty serious screw up there

Nimrod's Son · 11-12-2005 4:17pm

:rolleyes: Typical. Someone should be hung, drawn and quartered for that faux pas.

angeldelight · 11-12-2005 4:19pm

I went to school in Maynooth and although the older name is Maigh Nuad, Ma Nuad is how we learned it for the orals etc.

Nimrod's Son · 12-12-2005 10:29am

Ah. Well, I'll just go call off the lynching in that case.

MicraBoy · 12-12-2005 10:47am

I went to school in Maynooth and although the older name is Maigh Nuad, Ma Nuad is how we learned it for the orals etc.

Orally speaking aren't Maigh Nuad and Ma Nuad pronounced exactly the same?

The ancient name of Maynooth means the plain of Nuada. Nuada is referred to as the maternal grandfather of the legendary Fionn mac Cumhail in the 'Annals of the Four Masters'.

The town of Maynooth takes its name from Nuadha Neacht, a pre-Christian King of Ireland, or perhaps from a later Mogh Nuadhat, a ruler of the second century after Christ.

*marie* · 12-12-2005 2:19pm

MicraBoy wrote:

Orally speaking aren't Maigh Nuad and Ma Nuad pronounced exactly the same?

No.

Outcast · 12-12-2005 11:37pm

They're totally different. It's My and Maw

Teller · 13-12-2005 10:39am

Does anyone really care though?

Nimrod's Son · 13-12-2005 11:23am

Teller wrote:

Does anyone really care though?

I do!!!

Teller · 13-12-2005 11:26am

Ok

dr zoidberg · 13-12-2005 11:28am

Outcast wrote:

Couldn't tell you. But do you know that on the lectern in the main theatre in the Hume it says Ollscoil Ma Nuad. Pretty serious screw up there

It's a grammar rule I think

Smurfpiss · 13-12-2005 6:00pm

it means something like "this persons" place.
like there was a king nuad. or king maigh. or some big fella anyway.
the two different spellings are both accepted anyway. haven't a bleedin clue.

Gael · 24-12-2005 9:00pm

"Maigh" meaning "plain", is spelt in the old dative case, which doesn't exist anymore in the modern Irish language. Hence the reason it is commonly spelt as Má Nuad rather than Maigh Nuad. They're both right as such, it's just that one is more archaic than the other.

Outcast · 24-12-2005 11:44pm

It's still Maigh Eo though isn't it?

Nimrod's Son · 25-12-2005 1:33am

Outcast wrote:

It's still Maigh Eo though isn't it?

No, you're disillusioned!!!!

Outcast · 25-12-2005 1:37am

What?

Nimrod's Son · 25-12-2005 2:10am

Maigh Eo is Mayo.

Nimrod's Son · 25-12-2005 2:13am

Sweet God, if I'm wrong, Patsy, you can strike down from above somehow.

angeldelight · 25-12-2005 2:33am

Nimrod's Son wrote:

Maigh Eo is Mayo.

I think the OP knew that and was saying the old dative case is still being used in "Maigh Eo", not that Maynooth was Maigh Eo....

If thats what you thought anyway, I could have just picked up wrong!

Outcast · 25-12-2005 1:38pm

That is what I meant, if Maigh Eo is Mayo surely Maigh Nuad is Maynooth

lordgoat · 25-12-2005 8:21pm

don't call me Surely.

ClareBear · 27-12-2005 11:15pm

Stop it! You're making me cry!:(

europerson · 28-12-2005 9:24pm

I'm not even from Maynooth, nor do I attend St. Patrick's or NUIM, but isn't Maigh Nuad the nominative case and Má Nuad the tuiseal ginideach, i.e., the genitive case?

dr zoidberg · 30-12-2005 3:11am

That's what I thought. Hence the train station having "Maigh Nuad" but the college being called "Ollscoil na hÉireann Má Nuad". Although I'm probably wrong.

europerson · 30-12-2005 5:42pm

No, I should think you're probably right.

Time Magazine · 02-01-2006 2:56am

europerson wrote:

No, I should think you're probably right.

Don't listen to him, he's a Trinity scummer!

My thoughts exactly, to be honest.

Maigh Nuad

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