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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Language can be very representative of a culture e.g. Dia is Mhuire duit to say hello. Clearly religious.

    Goodbye == 'God be with you', clearly religious ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    dubhthach wrote: »
    Goodbye == 'God be with you', clearly religious ;)


    Interesting i did not know that...


  • Registered Users Posts: 43 Tiredandcranky


    Slightly off topic, but what about distinctly Irish words that are (more by older generation) put into English sentences.
    Off the top of my head (I am completely guessing at spelling here)

    He was very flaithuil with the money (..flamboyant reckless spending )

    A seascar little man (neat, tidy, careful)

    They were ullagoning (crying... annoying wailing sort of crying)

    A grabhar sort of man (generous, well fed, happy, content)

    I’ll cut a gowlog off the ditch (a forked piece of a branch)

    Anyone got some others? I think they’re fascinating.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Slightly off topic, but what about distinctly Irish words that are (more by older generation) put into English sentences.
    Off the top of my head (I am completely guessing at spelling here)

    He was very flaithuil with the money (..flamboyant reckless spending )

    A seascar little man (neat, tidy, careful)

    They were ullagoning (crying... annoying wailing sort of crying)

    A grabhar sort of man (generous, well fed, happy, content)

    I’ll cut a gowlog off the ditch (a forked piece of a branch)

    Anyone got some others? I think they’re fascinating.

    "go way with your Plámas"
    or
    "you're some plámáser..."


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Ciotóg for left-handers

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Ciotóg for left-handers


    Always thought that was for people who use both right and left hands??


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I've never heard of it in that context.

    https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/ciot%C3%B3g

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    'Mar dhea' - as it were.

    Joe Duffy is mad for dropping that one into conversation, mar dhea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    I've never heard of it in that context.

    https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/ciot%C3%B3g


    You know, I had it wrong, how I mixed it up with ambidextrous I'll never know!! :o Yet another of my silver moments!


  • Registered Users Posts: 43 Tiredandcranky


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    'Mar dhea' - as it were.

    Joe Duffy is mad for dropping that one into conversation, mar dhea.

    I think I know the one you’re talking about but for me it has a different meaning. It’s kind of ‘as if’. The one I’m thinking of is pronounced murra- ya.

    The money was only resting in his account, Mar dhea.
    He was going to pay for it, he just forgot, Mar dhea.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    I think I know the one you’re talking about but for me it has a different meaning. It’s kind of ‘as if’. The one I’m thinking of is pronounced murra- ya.

    The money was only resting in his account, Mar dhea.
    He was going to pay for it, he just forgot, Mar dhea.

    My mother and aunts would say it like 'my-ah', which to them meant 'he will pay for it my ah (wink-wink) or (my eye). Such a memory.

    Some people look at me strangely now when I say 'it's great gas'.


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