Ailín Ó Súilleabháin

Aistritheoir Gaelainne, Cúrsaí Teangeolaíochta is Dúlra is mó is spéis liom. Ó Loch Garman ó dhúchas. An Bóthar Míleata, Co Chil Mhantáin, athá sa pheictiúir.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL There is also a surname "Wickham" (pronounced "Wickum") which is not uncommon in Co Wexford in the southeast of Ireland. Probably came over with the Normans.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL Ah, yes. Pirdie < pratie (< práta(í)) by metathesis.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL @warren_maguire My late neighbour had a lot of farming terms that few people would know today, names for animals, parts of a plough, ploughing, sowing, etc. Many Irish language field names that were not written down anywhere.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL @warren_maguire The online English Dialect Dictionary can be helpful: https://t.co/IYdyXSImd9

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL @warren_maguire Yes, please do. Many thanks.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL My late neighbour had lots of words relating to farming. A mix of English and borrowings from Irish.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL That rings a bell. Maybe the difference between a sprong and a gripe was the number of prongs? Can't say for certain.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL Another thing: the "ditch" was the bank above the dike, rather than the dike itself. Hence the saying "hurlers on the ditch".

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL @warren_maguire The most common word for a pronged fork in Wexford was "sprong", probably borrowed from Irish "sprang".

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL Ah, yes. That's what I was thinking of. Many thanks.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@JHCPAL @warren_maguire Ah, yes, That's it. Many thanks!

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@warren_maguire @JHCPAL I have a vague memory of hearing "gripe" or "grike" (?) in Wexford but not sure now what exactly it referred to.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@MacDaraMusic @FoghlaimTG4 Fóghmhar na ngéadhna, Samhradh beag na Féile Mhíchíl, samhradh na ngéadhna (Dinneen) (Níl aon áit fé leith luaite aige leotha, áfaigh).

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@MacDaraMusic @FoghlaimTG4 Mar eolas: Indian summer - samhradh beag na ngéabha [C] (Mac Cionnaith, 1935. lch 665). [C] = Cúige Chonnacht

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@AHaoine ag séirseáil

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@AHaoine Fear mór bladhgair, bladhmannach.

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@AHaoine "Codladh go headra is áirneán go b****n" - seanará

[Ailín Ó Súilleabháin @AilinOSuill]

@AHaoine "An té raghaidh sás na mochóirí amach air, níor mhiste dho codladh go headorra" - Seanachaint na nDéise, lch 199.