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"Ainmhian an Bhanmhúinteora Óig"

• malrach - young lad
• giodróg - impudent young girl
• cha rabh aici ach deich mbliana orthu - she was just ten years older than them
• ba rogha léithi - b'fhearr léi
• teallaireacht, pastaireacht - impertinence, answering in a cheeky way
• scoithaicme - elite (scoithaicmeachas - elitism)
• dúlsáith - sáith, dóthain
• gasúr, PL gasúraí - (U) boy
• clis - teip
• dúthracht - not only "diligence, commitment" but also "extra money to a good worker", here used euphemistically for "bribe"
• geafta - geata
• cacamas cainte - bad, indecent, language
• glagaireacht - (verbose, pleonastic and) unnecessary talk, nonsense
• i gcomhchlos do X - so that X may hear. This expression comes from Peig Sayers.
• caochló (U) - claochlú, deterioration
• nimheanta, frithir - sore, sharply painful
• giúlán - iompar
• síolteagasc - indoctrination
• siosmaide - common sense, practical intelligence
• uachtaráin (PL) - the decision-makers, the higher-ups
• raiple húta - ruaille buaille
• cros - coisc, prohibit, forbid
• aithne - (also:) Biblical commandment
• tréigbheáil - tréigean
• pótaire - druncaeir
• díol + GEN. - a person deserving something
• drúthlann - brothel
• tá a shliocht ort - its trace is on you, i.e. it can be seen on you
• cáidheach - dirty, filthy
• goimhiúil - feeling like a "goimh", the stitch in a painful wound. The word "goimh" is often used in the sense of a lasting pain in a wound you thought had healed already.
• nighean - iníon; ar an nighin bhig (dative) - ar an iníon bheag. I am not very consistent about using the dative case, but I think some variation here is quite excusable. Of course dative forms do look posh and fine.
• b'fhacthas do... - seemed to...- There is a meaningful difference between chonacthas = was seen and b'fhacthas = seemed in many dialects, though b'fhacthas is strictly speaking a grammatical error, treating a verb form as an adjective.
• daoithi = di
• greanntraigéideach - tragicomical
• áitigh(VN áitiú) ar dhuine - persuade
• ghní - is the absolute form stem of déan in Ulster. Both ghní and déan go back to the classical form do-ghní.
• a chuid a thabhairt d'fhear - compare: do chuid a fháil ó mhnaoi
• ar son na craice amháin - just for fun, for laughs achan is the Ulster development of gach aon, with two audible and clear a's.
• duine a fháil in eangaigh - to "get somebody in a net", i.e. make her your wife or him your husband
• maígh, VN maíomh or more handily maíochtáil, means "say, state, declare, claim, mean, refer to" (rud a mh.), but also "boast"(m. as rud) and "envy"(rud a mh. ar dhuine). A good word everybody must learn to use actively, or uncle Panu will get very angry.
• feighlí - (here:) babysitter (what the deuce are you using that béibeasoiteáil for, you amhlóirí!?)
• gnáthaimh mhaidine - morning routines
• a cuid leabharthach - (Ulster plural genitive) a cuid leabhar(tha(í))
• cithfholcadh - shower
• coigirse - proper order
• úiréidríteas - urethritis
• saoistín, saoisteog - a stool, or any thing you sit on which is more primitive than a proper chair
• drann(adh) le... - show your teeth to..., show you face to..., be facing...; (also:)act threateningly towards..."Ná drann le Lucky Luke!" = "don't mess with Lucky Luke!"
• sceitimíní - forward-looking anxiousness, thrills
• chan abórfadh (U) - would not say
• taibhse gan cur leis - empty ostentation
• ar shéala - ar hob, ar tí, ar bís
• driseogach - prickly, irritable
• tréithrigh - tréithriú - characterise
• in ainm a bheith greannmhar - supposed to be funny
• dríodar an chrúiscín - the youngest one in a family
• giúlán - iompar
• tathantaigh - tathantú - to press something on someone
• sáirsingigh - sáirsingiú - to press something on someone

  Panu Höglund

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  1997-02-28 CPD