Fòram na Gàidhlig

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?

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

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

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...

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

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!

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?

poor_mouse wrote: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?

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

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.

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).

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.

Mòran taing!

Tha sin gu math soilleir a-nis.

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

Ùps... Chaill mis' an darna L.

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!