How do you say "Quaker" in Irish? It doesn't seem to be in any of my dictionaries or the online translators...

Cumann na gCarad

Na Caecair

grma!

so would "an Caecar" be "the Quaker?"

Conas a dearfa 'the good Protestants'? Which was their nickname during the famine.Or - more likely - afterwards.

Na dea-Phratastúin?
Na Pratastúin ba charthannaí?

I have heard native speakers talk of "na Pratastúin" but I know the dictionaries give the adjectival form "Protastúnach" ...

So

Na dea-Phrotastúnaigh ...

If they used the term "good Protastants" they may have expressed the idea differently in Irish. I heard my parents use the phrase in English for the kindness shown to the Catholic servant who had to fast until after Mass on Sunday by giving a pack of sandwiches or such like.

"An Caecar" is obviously just a transliteration of "the Quaker." I don't like the look of it myself.

If you were to say he was "a member of the Quakers" you could say "ball de Chumann na gCarad ab ea é."

If you wished you could make up a new word equivalent to "Quaker" from "creathnaigh" (quake) - "Creathnaitheoir"

I'm not sure anyone would recognise it and perhaps someone else could suggest a better equivalent perhaps based on "crith" -- lucht na gcreathanna? iad siúd a bhíos ag crith ? etc

In any case if the term is not necessarily part of Gaeltacht culture it is left in English nowadays - at least in spoken Irish. I don't agree with that. I think we should describe and name everything in Irish. Explain things in Irish ...

Aontaím leat: leasainm atá i 'Quaker' - ní dóigh liom go n-úsáideann an pobal sin féin é.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Quaker

I'd rather not make up a new word. The purpose of this is to serve as a nickname for someone, so I'd also rather not string together a lengthy and highly descriptive phrase.

Imagine there being someone at work who looks like the guy from the quaker oats can and having the desire to refer to him as "the quaker" in casual conversation. That's not precisely the situation (it actually has nothing to do with the oats guy), but it's close enough to give you an idea of what I need.

I mean, there were Quakers in Ireland, the Irish called them something, and there was undoubtedly a single word used to refer to an individual person (I'm thinking that Caecar was probably what was historically used unless someone wants to correct me on that). I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Irish simply transliterated the english word for this foreign sect in a case like this rather than constructing a new word based on its english etymology (like they did with "Methodist")

I'm not sure. The Corpas has three attestations, two from the Newspaper Anois and one from Lá.

icla1544 1970: Thug Uachtarán SAM , Richard Milhous Nixon , cuairt ar reilig Thigh Mochua , Co Chill Dara , áit a bhfuil , más fíor , sinsear Caecar dá chuid , a raibh Milhous air , curtha .
itan0071 Caecar a bhí ann a thiontaigh ina Anglacánach ' ar mhaithe le stádas , ' ach níor ghreamaigh creideamh a sinsir léi .
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Bhíothas i gcoinne Giúdach agus Caecar freisin ar feadh i bhfad agus go láidir i gcoinne na Modhach mar gur sheas siadsan leis na daoir dhubha .