(osna) Tnúthán an Dúchais arís! Agus mise ag déanamh chomh maith sin go dtí an uair anois! Cad é an míniú a bhainfeá as an abairt seo: "Ba bheag le cupla mí a bhí sé i Meiriceá nuair a bhí sé ar an gceantar faoi gcuairt don bhaile.", go háirithe: "ar an gceantar faoi gcuairt don bhaile"? Ní thuigim cén fáth a bhfuil an t-úrú ar "cuairt".

B'fhéidir gur "typo" é faoi agus gur ceart faoin a bheith ann. Seachas é sin, níl aon fhath aile go mbeadh urú ar "cuairt".

Ba bheag le cupla mí a bhí sé i Meiriceá nuair a bhí sé ar an gceantar faoin gcuairt don bhaile.


He was just a few months in America and already he was on the edge of visiting home.

Ceart go leor. Go raibh míle maith agat, a Fhear na mBróg!

Be careful with Ó Cadhain. He has a habit of Irishifying English words.

I think he may be using "cant" here

He had hardly been a few months in America when he was "cantering" about a visit home.

About the urú; Ó Cadhain uses dialect forms; This is probably one of them. (Be very wary of assuming Ó Cadhain got it wrong!

I like Aonghus's interpretation of "ar an gceantar".

In more "literary" English, that would be something like:

"He had been in America barely a few months when he was champing at the bit to visit home."

--Al Evans

I meant "cant"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cant
rather than canter, as a horse does.

Hmmmm...

Seems to me like "canter", as a horse does, works better -- ar an gceantar, on the canter, champing at the bit....

But I haven't (tried to) read the book. I'm stalled somewhere near the beginning of _An tOileánach_ at the moment.

--Al Evans

I think Aonghus has it right with "cant" or "cantering" - talk about going home has a more Irish sense.

Ooops! Rinne mé botún! That should have read, "Ba bheag le cupla mí a bhí sé i Meiriceá nuair a bhí sé chomh taithithe air is a bhí sé ar an gceantar faoi gcuairt don bhaile."

Ah! Lightbulbs

He was only a few months in America when he was as used to it as he was to the area within visiting distance of home.

A horse of another color altogether