By Guest on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 10:48 pm:
As part of the European Year of Language, our school is having a European Language Day. Each department is contributing something. So ... could anyone out there please tell me the Irish words for Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Psychology?
Looking forward to your help. Thanks, Larissa
By Lacie on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 02:26 pm:
SHAE!!!! this one is for you *s*
By Shae on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 02:51 pm:
I'm working on it, Lacie!!
Many "modern" concepts, such as television, radio, bus, etc, don't exist in the Irish language. It's necessary to invent them and sometimes they look silly.
Science = Eolaíocht
Chemistry = Ceimic
Physics = Fisic
Biology = Bitheolaíocht
I don't know the Irish for Psychology. I'll try to find out.
By Lacie on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 02:59 pm:
hmmm ... the 'Irish' for psychology .. *grin* .... is that a loaded question?
*ducks for cover*
By Shae on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 03:47 pm:
Maybe, but I suspect Australian psychologists spend most of their time looking for someone with a brain to study.
Hah!!
By Lacie on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 03:52 pm:
Hah!! ... maybe so .. maybe so. *sits defeated*
....... or is that *stands ready to thrash brains* LOL ya wanna brain thrashing, shae?
Lets hope you were able to help Larissa.
By Shae on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 10:15 pm:
Psychology = Síceolaíocht
By Accasbel on Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 12:20 am:
Or for Psychology - aigneolaíocht - 'mind knowledge'
eolaí - would be a knowlegable person
is eol dom - i know (something - usually useful)
aigne - the mind
Maybe eolaíocht and aigneolaíocht are the only non-invented terms in the set.
Whereas psychiatry is síciatracht - which screams of 'béarlachas' - or English (Béarla) words twisted only very slightly into a pseudo-Irish form.
This may or may not imply that psychology comes easier to the Irish being than does psychiatry :)
By Daryl on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 05:47 pm:
Would the Irish have need of síciatracht, were it not for their English neighbors?
By Accasbel on Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 08:48 pm:
Yes, because if it hadn't been the English, it would have been the French, The Spanish, the Dutch or any other colonial power - who were all only doing what the other powers were doing all over the known world. It was the fashion.
Hey! If this compensation for slavery thing takes off, the next big thing will be compensation for colonisation and subjugation.
We gonna be rich! Yippie! We'll be able to pay for our síciatracht. :)