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I am very new to this. But, I would like to ask is the translation

Bodb Stoirman pronounced Bove Shteirman?

Correct for a male name STORMCROW? Not sure the rules on compound words.

Thanks in advance

Carlborne wrote:I am very new to this. But, I would like to ask is the translation

Bodb Stoirman pronounced Bove Shteirman?

Correct for a male name STORMCROW? Not sure the rules on compound words.

Thanks in advance

That definitely does NOT mean "stormcrow." Not sure where you got it, but it doesn't look like Irish at all.

Redwolf

From what I read, Bodb Is masculine for Badb which means crow I believe? A Goddess name? and Stoirm means storm. I looked them up in Old Irish Gaelic dictionaries. I thought you added -an to nouns to make them a name.

Sorry as mentioned I am very new.

Perusing my FGB, I noted that badhbh,which has the primary meaning of "war goddess" (and means "witch" or "old hag" in Scottish Gaelic) has a secondary (possibly old) meaning of "carrion crow". In the old writing system, that would have been written badb, with a dot over the "d" and the second "b". In modern Irish, the letter "h" goes after the consonant instead in those cases.

In modern Irish, what you asked for would be:
préachán stoirmeach
stormy crow

but I suppose you could have:
badhbh stoirmeach
stormy crow

Fantastic I would prefer the older translation. One small problem though ROFL

I kinda need phonetic pronunciation. I want to use it as a name.

Thanks again

You can use this link to get to a site where you can type in Irish words or phrases and hear them pronounced. It favors the Ulster dialect (Irish has several dialects), though, and that will affect the pronunciation of the first word (but not the second one):
http://www.abair.tcd.ie/?page=synthesis&lang=eng

There are some folks on here who have good pronunciation and sometimes do sound files for people, so check again later (they are asleep in Ireland by now). For now, here's a very rough guide:

badhbh "BUY-uv" or or "BUY-uh" or "BEE-oo" [with the second syllable being brief - almost not there - in each case]
stoirmeach "STORM-ukh" ["kh" is guttural, like the "ch" in Loch Ness]

I'm not sure I'd use "badhbh" as a MASCULINE name.

Redwolf

I'm not sure I'd use "badhbh" as a MASCULINE name.
Redwolf

Red has a point, given that its various meanings in both of those forms of Gaelic (Irish and Scottish) mostly point to female creatures. It's also grammatically feminine, although that need not be decisive.

The name Bodhbh Dearg was also used meaning "red crow" or the red King. Assuming masculine

Some stuff here about badhbh:

http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clann_Lir

and here:

http://books.google.ie/books?id=IoW9yhk ... &q&f=false