Dia duit agus fáilte ar ais, in this Irish language video we're going to look at
seven of the most beautiful Irish words to do with nature, let's start with Fia
Fia is the Irish for deer and this comes from the word Fiáin which means
wild in Irish, so it's a wonderful way to describe a wild and native animal to
Ireland, Fia, chomh fiáin le fia - as wild as a deer.
Our next Irish word is Gráinneog, and this is the Irish for Hedgehog
this is a coming together of two words
Gráinne and Óg, Grain and young so it describes a young grain probably to do
with the way a hedgehog will display his spikes as a defense mechanism
how it grows up like that in in a context like a grain growing as such, Gráinne for
grain and Óg for youth so together Gráinneog is a hedgehog.
Our next Irish, I suppose, a phrase would be the best way to describe it is
about describing the Milky Way - Bealach na bó finne
this literally translates into the way of the white cow or the way of the fair cow
because bealach means way, bó means cow and finne is to do with, comes
from the word fionn which means fair so probably to do with stars being a source
of life just like a cow is and was a source of life for so many farmers down
through the years, bealach na bó finne = the way of the white cow
the next word is Tuar Ceatha, Tuar Ceatha is the Irish for a rainbow, Tuar means to foresee
or foreshadow and Ceatha is to do with a shower
so Cith is a shower and that's where Ceatha comes from, Tour Ceatha to foresee or
foreshadow a shower because you'd often see a rainbow just before a shower or during a shower
Our next word is the Irish for Daisy
which is Nóinín, this comes from two words Nóin which comes from the
Irish word Iarnóin which means afternoon - nóin and ín
pronounced een usually refers to a child or children so Nóinín means the child
of the afternoon because daisies - their petals cover the inside of the flower
at night so they kind of curl up at night and they covered the yellow piece in
the middle and that's where they get the name Nóinín because you'd often see
the Daisy with it's petals stretched out open in the afternoon
Nóinín - children of the afternoon.
Our next word is Duilleog is the Irish for leaf and this again comes from two words fusing together Duille
is to do with glory or wealth, Duille, and Óg is
again to do with youth or children so Duilleog means young glory or young
wealth so when you see lots of leaves on a tree
you can see that they're small in comparison to the main tree but they
have certain potential and glory and wealth
I suppose, especially when during in season in color green and bright and all
that so Duilleog means young glory or young wealth
Tá na duilleoga ag titim - the leaves are falling.
Our next word then is Seamróg, this is the Irish for Shamrock, Seamróg and again
it's two words coming together to form one, it comes from Seamair which is the
Irish for clover and Óg which is the Irish for young so a young clover is
a shamrock, seamróg a young clover. So that brings us the end of this video, if you
enjoyed it please give it a thumbs up and I will see you soon when I'll be
making another video, míle buíochas agus slán tamall.