Irish Class, October 4, 2010

Rang Gaeilge, an 4ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2010

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First night as a member of Will’s class!

“Show and Tell”

1. Is mór an onóir dom gur ceapadh mé sa ról seo ina bhfuil an oiread sin suime agam.
   [… sa ról seo a bhfuil an oiread sin suim ann.]
   It is a great honor to me to be appointed in this role in which I have that great amount of interest.

   onóir	honor
   ceap	think, appoint	p aut ceapadh
   sa ról seo	in this role
   oiread	amount
   suim	interest	g suime

2. 20 bliain go cothrom ó rinneadh an Ghearmáin a athaontú

   cothrom	even, fair
   rinneadh	made
   athaontú	reunion

   Tá an Ghearmáin ag ceiliúradh athaontú na tíre a tharla cothrom an lae inniu fiche bliain ó
   shin. Is í Angel Merkel , a rugadh agus a tógadh in oirthear na Gearmáine roimh thitim bhalla
   Beirlín, atá i gceannas ar na himeachtaí comórtha is ceiliúrtha. Tá tús áite sna himeachtaí ag
   Bremen agus bhailigh na scórtha mílte ansin chun a léiriú a lúcháir go ndearnadh an tír a
   athaontú.

   ceiliúradh	celebration
   tarlaigh	happen, occur
   inniu	today
   an lae inniu
   ceannas	sovereignty, authority
   imeacht	departure
   ceiliúrtha	celebrated	va
   áit	place	gs áite [?]
   bailigh	collect, gather
   scór	score	pl scórtha
   milte	thousands
   chun	to, towards
   léirigh	beat down, subdue
   léiriú	clarification, illustration
   chun a léiriú	in order to show/demonstrate
   lucháir	joy, exultation

Listening and Translation Exercise

We listened to Stoite several times.
We had a transcript with a lot of the words blanked out. Our first task was to fill in the blanks. I did not
do well at this. After that we translated it. Looking up the words was (mostly) easy. Putting them
together to make sense of the poem was harder. I commented: Tuigim na focail. Ní thuigim an dán.

Stoite “Uprooted”

aithreacha	fathers	pl of athair
achrann	tangle, entanglement
saol	life
coraíocht	wrestling	f3
carraig	rock	f2 pl carreacha
aiteas	pleasantness, fun	m1
orthu	on them	← ar
tráth	hour, time, day
ab	??
eol	known (?)
dóihbh	to/for them	← do
caoin	gentle, smooth (a)/ cry (v)
úir	earth, soil	f2
ceart	right	m1
bain ceart de
neart	strength, power	m1
dúil	element	f2 gpl dúl
tóg	raise, build
siúd, úd	yon, yonder	like seo, sin
claí	dike, wall, fence	m4
fál	hedge, fence, wall, barrier	m1
mair	live, last, survice
ina dhiadh	after	“in his afterness”
coinnigh	keep
buan	permanent
Sinne	we	emphatic
clann	children, offspring, descendants	gs clainne
dúinn	to us
éigean	force, necessity
Dúinn is éigean	it is necessary for us, we have to
áras	habitation, house	m1
ó	from, since
leag	set, lower (v)	cond. leagfadh
cíos	rent
braon	drop
go fóill	yet, still
carnán	(small) heap, mound
trodán	file	(for papers)
ualach	load, burden
deannach	dust	gs deannaigh
inár ndiadh	after us

The poet is saying that his ancestors were farmers, who wrestled a
living from the stony soil and made houses and stone walls as a
permanent monument to their work. The author and his fellows are
government bureaucrats, who will leave only a pile of papers after them.

Dom Féin

ciall	sense	gs céille, ds céill
feasta	from now on, henceforth
leathchéad	50	“half hundred”
tréan	strong man, warrior, strength, intensity	m1
ribe	hair	(a single hair)
blaosc	eggshell	(skull)
meigeall	goatee
aósta	aged, old
glac	accept	cond glacfadh

Quiz Question

Cén t-ainm atá ar an bainisteoir sa clár teilifíse The man from Uncle?. Alexander Waverley

Misc. vocabulary

sraith	series
iníon altrama	foster daughter
ilchríoch	continent	f2

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