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Rachel
| Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2000 - 09:31 pm: |
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Please I need the Gaelic translation for the English word "sanity". If anyone can help me, please email me at Thanks |
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Maureen Connelly
| Posted on Monday, September 25, 2000 - 01:20 pm: |
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In my fóclór póca, pocket dictionary the word for sanity is ciall. In the english/irish dictionary by Tomás De Bhaidraithe is gives in addition to ciall,meabhair and réasún. |
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Laigheanach
| Posted on Monday, September 25, 2000 - 04:19 pm: |
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"Ciall" is better translated as "sense". "Meabhair" would be better.There really isn't any direct translation of "sanity", as "meabhair" means "mind", if translated directly. But it's the closest of the lot.But to say someone is "insane", you'd just say that they were out of, or had lost, the above mentioned "meabhair", so it's quite a good translation if not a completely direct one. It's pronounced M-YOW-ER. |
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Aonghus
| Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 04:13 am: |
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I would translate sanity as "sláinte intinne" - health of mind. |
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An Beirneach ()
| Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 12:36 pm: |
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On that note you can say of someone 'tá lá den tseachtain de dhíth air' - in other words he's not too sane. An Beirneach. |
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Laigheanach
| Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 02:44 pm: |
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I suppose, a Bheirnigh, that that's like "He's one day short of a week". |
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