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Cén t-ainm gaeilge is fearr leatsa ?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭Fizgig Bandicoot


    Aard wrote: »
    Cá bhfaightear na hainmneacha seo!? "Míoda"? An bhfuil aithne ag éinne ar éinne a chuala an t-ainm seo cheana?

    Nuiar a bhi me ag deanamh an Ardteist/Teatas Soisearech, bhi gearrsceal le leamh againn (An Lasair choille.) Bhi cailin darbh ainm Mioda sa sceal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    An-chuid scéalta ann le daoine a bhfuil ainmneacha aite acu iontu.


  • Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭tictac__x


    Is iad Saoirse agus Siofra na h-aimneacha is fear liomsa, do chailini in aon chor, ach do na buachailli is iad Fiachra no Caoimhinn mo rogha:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Is breá liom Sadhb, Caoimhe, Saoirse, Clíodhna do na cailíní agus Tadhg, Rian, Naoise do na buachaillí


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭i like pie


    siofra, sadhb agus liadhan


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21 JackMagic


    Peigeasas


  • Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭PARARORY


    Saoirse :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Caoimhe, Aibhlinn, Roisin

    Odhran, Emmet, Daire, Cian


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Ainm Gaeilge é Emmet?


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Eamonn :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 941 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    Aard wrote: »
    Ainm Gaeilge é Emmet?

    Eiméid..go hoifigiúil


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    Aard wrote: »
    Ainm Gaeilge é Emmet?


    Bhí orm breathnú air suas, ach tá sé ar an láithreán gréasáin seo!


    http://www.babynamesofireland.com/pages/boy-names-d-f.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Hmm... ainm Éireannach b'fhéidir, ach ainm Gaeilge ní dóigh liom é!


  • Registered Users Posts: 941 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    B'fhéidir nach ainm Gaelach é ach mar a tharla leis na hainmneacha Normanacha go léir sa tír seo, baistíodh leagan Gaeilge orthu, Mac Gearailt, de Búrca srl. Sa leabhar "An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir", Eiméid atá acu. Caithfidh mé a rá nár chuala mé ariamh sa chaint é ach seans go n-úsáidtear é ag iriseóirí.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 larah_lass 10


    Is breá liom Laoise, Sorcha, Saoirse, Eibhlin, blaithin Sinny (Jenny) Aoife Aoibhe Cait agus Caithlin fá chóinne cailíní agus Anrí, Seán, Lúcas Seamus agus Eoin fá chóinne buachaillí. Tá siad chomh álainn. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭DJP


    Cailín: Saoirse.
    Buachaill: Seán.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40 UndertheBridge


    Cailíní

    Róise
    Bláthín
    Clodagh
    Rionach (Is aoibhinn liom é!!!!)


    Buachaillí

    Rian
    Cormac
    Ciaran
    Oran nó Odhran
    Coilín


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭Vinniew


    Uinsionn, mo ainm. Gan amhras an ainmnios alainn....


    Uionsionn de Faoite
    (UdF?) ;-O:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 evolve


    Cailíní

    Áilbhe
    Caoimhe
    Áine
    Niamh

    Buachaillí

    Niall
    Naoise
    Cormac
    Eoin


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭LB6


    Is breá liom an t-ainm Aoibheann, de réir mar is é mo mhac ainm. Níl aon ainm i nGaeilge do mo chailíní. Is é ceann i mBéarla, agus an ceann eile Rúise: D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    You named your son 'Aoibheann'?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭LB6


    I named him Evan - but that translated comes to Aoibheann! I always thought it was a F name, but that's what they told him in school and he's been using it since primary!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    It is a female name. That school is making it up as they go along; they clearly just want everyone to have an Irish name, even if it means using a female one. I went to Irish schools, so I know the drill, but this is ridiculous. Unless it's a "traditional" English name, it should not be translated. John, James, Matthew, etc are OK ... Evan, Dylan, Reece, etc are not.


  • Registered Users Posts: 941 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    Not sure if Evan has the same origin as Evin who was an ancient Irish saint from New Ross, Co. Wexford. The place-name Mainistir Eimhín (Monasterevin, Co. Kildare) is named after him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    Aard wrote: »
    It is a female name. That school is making it up as they go along; they clearly just want everyone to have an Irish name, even if it means using a female one. I went to Irish schools, so I know the drill, but this is ridiculous. Unless it's a "traditional" English name, it should not be translated. John, James, Matthew, etc are OK ... Evan, Dylan, Reece, etc are not.
    Thárla sé seo go minic agus mé ag freastal ar scoil freisin. Dá mba rud é go raibh tuismitheoirí ag iarraidh aimn áiféiseach a thabhairt ar a mac/iníon, bheadh sé déanta acu i bhfad roimh iad a chur chuig na scoile.

    This happened quite often during my school days. If parents wanted to give their son or daughter a stupid name, they would have done so long before they were near any school.


  • Registered Users Posts: 45 Elirlandes


    Maolmhuire. I mbearla, nach é sin "Bald Mary"? Agus is é sin ainim don fearr.

    Ainm manach ba ea "maol-XXX" toisc go raibh a gcinn bearrtha acu. I gcás Maolmhuire - "Devotee of the Virgin Mary"; Maolíosa = "Devotee of Jesus" srl.
    Is aoibheann liom Ailbhe, ...

    Ailbhe is ainm do mo h-iníonse. Is as an Spáinn í mo bhean agus bhíos ag lorg ainm le cuma mhaith sna dhá theanga (Gaeilge 7 an Spáinnis - tá an t-ainm "Alva" acu nach bhfuil ró-difriúil). Ainm áilinn is ea é dár liom.

    Is breá dom é an t-ainm Alastair fosta (Alexander as béarla).
    ---
    Ceist eile dóibh... Nach mór an náire nach usáidtear níos mó na ainmneacha Ghaeilge sa tír seo sa lá atá inniú ann, agus iadsan idir na hainmneacha níos álainn atá ar fáil?
    Cé h-iad na hÉireannaigh atá ag cur na hainmneacha seo a leanas ar a bpáistí? Nach bhfuil bród acu sna hainmneacha álainn atá againn?
    BOYS
    1 James
    2 Max
    3 Hugo and Patrick
    5 Oliver
    6 Tom, Thomas, Daniel, Harry, Peter, Benjamin and Luke
    GIRLS
    1 Anna, Lucy, Grace and Lilly
    5 Alice
    6 Emily and Sarah
    8 Emma and Chloe
    10 Rebecca and Sophie
    Níl ainm Gaelach ar bith ann... ainmneacha léamh, leadránaigh atá ann gan leid eadarthu gur as an tír seo a thagann an leanbh...


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Níl sa liosta sin ach faisin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Buachaill: Is brea liom Seán
    Cailíní: Gráinne nó Cáit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Cailíní - Mairéad, Aingeal,Róisín

    Buachaillí - Pól, Dáithí ,Turlach


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    Is breá liom Saoire, Aoibheann agus Aoibhe :)


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