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Liam
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Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 04:14 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

According to this site:

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/dragon9/CONNOR.html

The name O'Connor comes from Middle English connere, cunnere = inspector, from cunnen = to examine, from Old English cunnan = to know. It was the occupation of the man who inspected for standards, including weights and measures.


Is that true?

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Páidín
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Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2005
Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 09:32 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

No. O'Connor is Irish, without a doubt. The Irish surname is "Ó Conchúir".

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Seosamh Mac Muirí
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According to this site: ...... The name O'Connor comes from ...... including weights and measures. Is that true?


No Liam.
Is deas a fheiceáil go bhfuil an chaint saor i gcónaí - It's reasurring to see that free speech allows such utter ignorance to be displayed in public.
Níl a Liam. Níl aon bhlas dá laghad fírinne ag baint leis an ráiteas.
Some of these site characters need to start reading. Is fada an t-ainm pearsanta (Conchobhar > Conchúr) agus na sloinnte a d'eascair as in áiteanna éagsúla in Éirinn agus in Albain (Ó Conchobhair, Mac Conchobhair > Ó Conchúir, Mac Conchúir) i scríobh agus i gcaint na Gaeilge.

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Diarmo
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Post Number: 90
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Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 05:20 am:   Edit Post Print Post

why is it that we say o kruhoor in Irish and not something like o kunhoor??

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Seosamh Mac Muirí
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Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 06:39 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Mar le do cheist a Dhiarmo, athraíonn teanga na Gaeilge ar nós aon teanga eile.
I gcás cn > cr i roinnt canúintí, cuimhnímis gur athraigh an fhuaim chéanna sa Bhéarla i rith an ama chéanna chomh maith, ach gur athrú eile a chuir an Béarla de sa chás seo. Chualathas 'cnoc' roinnt céadta bliain ó shin mar a bhíodh san am agus scríobhadh dá réir, 'Knock'.

D'athraigh an Béarla ó shin agus ní fhuaimnítear an 'k' a thuilleadh roimh 'n' sna focail 'knee', 'knapweed', 'knock' srl. An fhuaim 'n' amháin a deirtear sna focail Bhéarla sin anois. I gcás ainm na háite i Maigh Eo, 'Cnoc Mhuire', déarfaidh an Connachtach leat 'ar an gCroc i Maigh Eo/i gCroc Mhuire' ach scríobhfaidh sé mar is fearr a scríobh, feictear dom, an focal mar 'Cnoc' (Mhuire).

Ba é an dála céanna ag fuaimniú an tsloinne é, gona cn > cr tharla gur achoimríodh an chéad siolla, Con > Cn, rud a thug Cr ar ball. Tá leagan leathathraithe le feiceáil ó thuaidh i nDoire mar a bhfuil Mc Nougher, foirm shioctha as 'Mac Conchobhair'. (Tá bá [= submergance] an 'C-' le feiceáil ansin chomh maith faoi íospairt '-c' an ainmfhocail roimhe 'Mac'.)

Ní miste a lua go gcloistear Ó Cnochobhair (Ó Cnocúir) i gCiarraí leis.

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Diarmo
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Post Number: 91
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Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 07:28 am:   Edit Post Print Post

SO where is the prononciation o conhoor heard? or where was it heard?

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Seán a' Chaipín
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It's amazing, when they did that much research, that they could get it so wrong!

And just after, there's a reference to Conchobhar....

Go figure, mar a déarfá.

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Seosamh Mac Muirí
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SO where is the prononciation o conhoor heard? or where was it heard?

Bheinn ag súil le guta cúnta idir an 'n' agus 'ch' agus maireann roinnt bheag san Eolaí Teileafóin:
'Conacur' idir an Uarán Mór agus an Caisleán Riabhach.

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'dj@ks
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Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 07:57 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

"It's amazing, when they did that much research, that they could get it so wrong!"
-Seán a' Chaipín

Yea for sure:

"Conchobhar, son of Donnchadh, was a King of Connacht who died in 970 AD. He adopted the hero Cú Chulain."

Jesus, if he had only been a little younger, he could have togged out for big one with the the Uí Neills vs. the Dal Cais under Captaen Briain Boru played on a cloudy day in Clontarf . History could have been so different...

If your feeling arty:
http://www.nagamas.co.uk/0206_cuchulain.htm

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Seán a' Chaipín
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Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 01:09 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

http://www.nagamas.co.uk/0206_cuchulain.htm

An deas!

Is maith liom na puipéadaí.

Seo duit Seán a'Chaipín:

http://www.scillybirding.co.uk/images/blackcap.jpg

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'dj@ks
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http://gofree.indigo.ie/~cocaomh/Irish-English%20Dictionary.htm

theres a lot o' 'black caps' there.

Question: do most people know bird names nowadays, gaeilge nó béarla?

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Seán a' Chaipín
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Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 01:53 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

I've only heard older people say "faoiléans".

People know dreoilín, coz of Wren Boys Day.

Um, that's about it in the Galltacht, methinks.

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Aonghus
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Post Number: 1090
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 03:45 pm:   Edit Post Print Post

Céard faoin spideog, an lon dubh, an fhuiseog, an chéirseach? Gan trácht ar an mBonnán Buí!

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Daisy
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Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 07:50 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Ceard faoin cuach?

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Aonghus
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Post Number: 1094
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Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 08:55 am:   Edit Post Print Post

Thit sí sa chuach is bhí sí caoch ina dhiadh!



cuach [ainmfhocal baininscneach den dara díochlaonadh]
éan a deir cú-cú agus a bheireann ubh i nead éin eile.
cuach [ainmfhocal firinscneach den cheathrú díochlaonadh]
babhla; corn (óil).
cuach [ainmfhocal baininscneach den dara díochlaonadh]
ceirtlín, beart, ribín snaidhmthe go deas ar ghruaig.



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