Translation help: "With sleep, find peace..." (GC)

Breandán · **Posted:** Sun 22 Mar 2015 3:39 pm

galaxyrocker wrote:

Literally: Find peace through sleep. May the clay protect you until we call you again.

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2985

Breandán wrote:

I've noticed recently that Pádraic Ó Conaire (a Connemara writer from the early 20th Century) used créafóig for "clay" in this sense, i.e. related to being buried in it. (Ó Dónall also gives sa chréafóg "in the clay, buried").

So, perhaps also:

Faigh suaimhneas trí chodladh. Go gcumhdaí an chréafóig thú go nglaofaidh muid aríst ort.

Yep that's a Conamara word. We tend to add "óg" to a lot of words that wouldn't have it in the Caighdeán.
But "cré" is used too, especially poetically like the book "Cré na Cille".

Breandán · **Posted:** Sun 22 Mar 2015 4:50 pm

Bríd Mhór wrote:

But "cré" is used too, especially poetically like the book "Cré na Cille".

mimerim · **Posted:** Tue 24 Mar 2015 4:07 am

Hmm...I know this is probably a dumb question, but what's the difference between "gcumhdaí" and "gcumhdaigh" ?

CaoimhínSF · **Joined:** Sun 04 Sep 2011 11:02 pm **Posts:** 1581

mimerim wrote:

Hmm...I know this is probably a dumb question, but what's the difference between "gcumhdaí" and "gcumhdaigh" ?

Cumhdaigh is the basic or "root" verb form, and also the second person singular imperative (or command) form, as in Cumhdaigh an domhan! ("Protect the earth!").

Go gcumhdaí is the present subjunctive form, used in phrases like Go gcumhdaí Dia an domhan ("May God protect the earth").

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