Ceistean: TYG

[poor_mouse]

Tha caileag ann againn... Tha a' chaileag sin ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig còmhla ruinn ach chan eil Beurla aice idir.
S' e am faighneachd aice a tha ann.
Tha i às an Ruis Geal (????????) agus 's e "???????" (Eugenia) a tha an t-ainm oirre.
Ciamar a bhios an t-ainm seo anns a' Ghàidhlig?

[GunChleoc]

Chan eil fios agam a bheil an t-ainm seo ann.

[poor_mouse]

Maybe it's possible to write 'Eugenia' somehow according to Gaelic orthography?

[akerbeltz]

If she was a boy, she's be Eòghan. I guess if you had to get creative, you could coin Eòghag, replacing the masculine ending with the feminine equivalant. I guess it's no worse than Donaldina and Calumina...

[Níall Beag]

Well you could always just pretend it's the same as "Jeanie" and go with "Sìne"...

[poor_mouse]

Ceud taing!

Canaidh mi seo dhi -- I'll tell her, and let her choose.
'S fheàrr leam "Eòghag" mar a bha sibh ag ràdh, akerbeltz, ach tha "Sìne" glè mhath!

[poor_mouse]

Chan eil mi cinnteach, ach... is "an" really an ending in "Eòghan" -- isn't it a part of the root?
Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gur e "n" a tha aig freumh an ainme "Eòghan".
Nach bidh "Eòghanag" nas fheàrr ma tha?

[Níall Beag]

Chan eil mi cinnteach, ach... is "an" really an ending in "Eòghan" -- isn't it a part of the root?
Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gur e "n" a tha aig freumh an ainme "Eòghan".
Nach bidh "Eòghanag" nas fheàrr ma tha?

Chan eil fhios agam, ach ma robh, nach bhiodh e nas coltach gun cail sinn an "a" -- Eòghnag?

[Seonaidh]

Eòghnag? Tha mi a' smaoineachadh air "Seonag" no "Seònaid" a-nis...
Eòghan...Ewan...Iwan...Ifan...Evan...beachd?

[akerbeltz]

Tha thu ceart, 's e pàirt dhen fhreumh a th' ann ach cha toigh leis a' Ghàidhlig faclan ro fhada agus, rud gu math neònach, ged a tha ag+an gu math pailt sa Ghàidhlig, chan eil an+ag pailt idir.

Ge-tà, tha Eòghnag a' còrdadh rium cuideachd.

[poor_mouse]

Glè mhath!
Moran taing dhuibh uile!

Cuiridh mi roimhpe "Eòghnag", "Seonag" 's "Seònaid" cuideachd.

NB (some small typo): Lorg mi "cail" anns an Fhaclair Beag agus chunnaic mi seo:

far am bi càil bidh cothrom
where theres is a will there is a way

Seo ceist eile (TYG, Aonad 9):
Comhairle nan Eilean [chunnaic mi gu dearbh "Comhairle nan Eilean Siar" anns an Internet],
obair nam bàrd --
Why "Eilean", "bàrd" (singular), though it means plural?
('S e "chun nam bùithean" a tha ann anns an Aonad 11 cia tà).

[GunChleoc]

The genitive plural is often identical with the genitive singular. Today, that usually only happens if the nominative plural ist slender, e.g. am balach, na balaich, nam balach; am bàrd, na bàird, nam bàrd. If the nominative plural is broad, the genitive is like the nominative: an t-eilean, na h-eileanan, nan eileanan, a' bhùth, na bùithean, nam bùithean. However, there are older forms where the same happens as with balach: an t-eilean, na h-eileanan, nan eilean. Names sometimes tend to have older forms.

[poor_mouse]

Mòran taing!

Tha sin gu math soilleir a-nis.

[Níall Beag]

NB (some small typo): Lorg mi "cail" anns an Fhaclair Beag agus chunnaic mi seo:

Ùps... Chaill mis' an darna L.

[akerbeltz]

Today, that usually only happens if the nominative plural ist slender,

Amusingly, it's creeping back into usage through web technology/software to save space sometimes when a text field can't be widened sufficiently.

Agus taing son fios a leigeil dhomh mun mhearachd, chuir mi ceart e!