Irish Translation Forum

Méabh wrote:umm should prionsa be lenited???

Dunno, I just mentioned it en passant. Na bac leis.

BTW

I got the dark prince translation from an earlier post on the site

by

smarty skirts

Somewhere I've seen An Tiarna Dubh -> The Dark Lord

Pól wrote:I reckon with the number of corrections I'm getting lately that its time to leave the translations to the newer 'generation'.

Nah, don't start with that baton passing cac...

We need SOMEONE of conscience here on the site

OK!!

I'm just saying that traditionall Irish surnames containing Dubh - Ó Dubhthaigh and Duff - referred to hair colour. So, if we are going to name a dark Prince perhaps Diamhair is better than Dubh which could e mistaken for "dark-haired prince".

hehehehe then why isn't Duff beer dark?

*ducks under her desk*

I said it was ok

But did a search

And came up with

an Oisín transaltion of Dark Prince as

Prionsa Dubh

Not one I would have favoured myself and wrongly went with Oisín's version.


However - I then spent some time checking all the variations of dubh with O Donaill ( a quiet Sunday here)



no worries

it wasn't a correction, my question about lenition

I wanted to know if my OWN translation was wrong

since I thought only fem. nouns are lenited in the singular

The post after the first Ailill post

Yeah I got variations on the word "dark" so apparently in my case diamhair would be better. Thanks much.