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John Fallon (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 07:06 pm: |   
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The last line of Finnegan's Wake by the Clancy Brothers uses a phrase "tanum an deal do you think I'm dead". Does anyone know what this means.
Go raibh maith agaibh,
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Abigail
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Username: Abigail
Post Number: 683
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 07:18 pm: |
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"T'anam 'un diabhail" literally means "your soul to the devil." It would be used to express amazement and perhaps annoyance.
Tá fáilte roimh chuile cheartú!
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Antaine
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Username: Antaine
Post Number: 1187
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 10:58 pm: |
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wouldn't it be "d'anam"? |
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Wee_falorie_man
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Username: Wee_falorie_man
Post Number: 158
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 12:43 am: |
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"Th' anam 'on diabhal."  |
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 3491
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2008 - 11:23 am: |
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"T'anam 'un diabhail."
"Th' anam 'on diabhal."
Do (your) is regularly wrtitten d' before a vowel in the Caighdeán, but it often is realized as t' or th' in the dialects.
I think the second word we hear here is the preposition+article don rather than the genitive preposition chun.
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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