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Seán_Óg
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Username: Seán_Óg
Post Number: 28
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 12:47 pm: |   
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choinnigh mé orm, nó bhí fonn na hoibre orm.
anyone able to translate this one for me please, (it's concerning housework, if that helps)
le do thoil |
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Seánw
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Username: Seánw
Post Number: 236
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 01:22 pm: |
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choinnigh mé orm = I kept at myself?
nó bhí fonn na hoibre orm = or (or "because") I was eager for the work.
I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.
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Peter
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Username: Peter
Post Number: 652
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 04:40 pm: |
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I carried on
'Na trí rud is deacra a thoghadh – bean, speal agus rásúr'
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Timd
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Username: Timd
Post Number: 34
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 04:44 pm: |
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After Peter's clarification, it is clear it is one of those Irish phrases whose idiom mirrors English.
Choinnigh sé air: he kept on |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9077
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 05:11 pm: |
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Mirrors, but is not necessarily derived from.
See FGB, definition 7 under coinnigh.
If it is good enough for Ó Dónaill....
"nó" in this case is because. See nó 2 = ÓIR in FGB.
(Message edited by aonghus on November 04, 2009) |
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Seán_Óg
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Username: Seán_Óg
Post Number: 29
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 06:07 pm: |
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that makes more sense, thanks everybody |
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Timd
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Username: Timd
Post Number: 36
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 06:13 pm: |
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Yes, I meant "mirrors", not "derived from". I think it is possible that some English idiom derives from an underlying Celtic substratum in England itself. |
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