Maigh Nuad

Nimrod's Son

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

Outcast

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

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

angeldelight

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

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

MicraBoy

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*

MicraBoy wrote:

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

No.

Outcast

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

Teller

Does anyone really care though?

Nimrod's Son

Teller wrote:

Does anyone really care though?

I do!!!

Teller

Ok

dr zoidberg

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

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

"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

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

Nimrod's Son

Outcast wrote:

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

No, you're disillusioned!!!!

Outcast

What?

Nimrod's Son

Maigh Eo is Mayo.

Nimrod's Son

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

angeldelight

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

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

lordgoat

don't call me Surely.

ClareBear

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

europerson

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

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

No, I should think you're probably right.

Time Magazine

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.