Translation for 'breaking changes'

Conaire · **Joined:** Sat 12 May 2018 9:33 pm **Posts:** 7

Hi,

I want to translate the phrase 'breaking changes' which is a term used a lot in technology to describe, quite aptly, a change that breaks something.
I was thinking it could be 'athruithe a bhriseadh' but on http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/verbnom.htm there is a rule

Quote:

the"regular" verbal noun ending in -adh and -ú (as well as: -á, -é, -í, -ó) always have
a genitive in the form of the verbal adjective (in infinitive and substantivised use)
e.g: glanadh - glanta (cleaning - of the cleaning), saothrú - saothraithe (hard work - of the hard work), suí - suite (sitting - of the sitting)

so should it be 'athruithe brista' which is different from broken changes which would be 'athruithe briste'?

Thanks,
Conaire

Labhrás · **Joined:** Sat 03 May 2014 4:01 pm **Posts:** 1970

Conaire wrote:

Hi,

I want to translate the phrase 'breaking changes' which is a term used a lot in technology to describe, quite aptly, a change that breaks something.
I was thinking it could be 'athruithe a bhriseadh' but on http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/verbnom.htm there is a rule

Quote:

the"regular" verbal noun ending in -adh and -ú (as well as: -á, -é, -í, -ó) always have
a genitive in the form of the verbal adjective (in infinitive and substantivised use)
e.g: glanadh - glanta (cleaning - of the cleaning), saothrú - saothraithe (hard work - of the hard work), suí - suite (sitting - of the sitting)

so should it be 'athruithe brista' which is different from broken changes which would be 'athruithe briste'?

Thanks,
Conaire

No, there is only briste (never "brista")

... which means both broken (as an verbal adjective) and breaking (as genitive of the verbal noun briseadh).

But except for pointe briste ("breaking point") or liathróid bhriste ("breaking ball") I have never seen it used in the meaning of "breaking", so athruithe briste isn't very convincing as a translation of "breaking changes"; it would probably rather be understood as "broken changes".

So some kind of rephrasing is helpful: athruithe atá ag briseadh

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

Labhrás wrote:

Conaire wrote:

Hi,

I want to translate the phrase 'breaking changes' which is a term used a lot in technology to describe, quite aptly, a change that breaks something.
I was thinking it could be 'athruithe a bhriseadh' but on http://nualeargais.ie/gnag/verbnom.htm there is a rule

Quote:

the"regular" verbal noun ending in -adh and -ú (as well as: -á, -é, -í, -ó) always have
a genitive in the form of the verbal adjective (in infinitive and substantivised use)
e.g: glanadh - glanta (cleaning - of the cleaning), saothrú - saothraithe (hard work - of the hard work), suí - suite (sitting - of the sitting)

so should it be 'athruithe brista' which is different from broken changes which would be 'athruithe briste'?

Thanks,
Conaire

No, there is only briste (never "brista")

... which means both broken (as an verbal adjective) and breaking (as genitive of the verbal noun briseadh).

But except for pointe briste ("breaking point") or liathróid bhriste ("breaking ball") I have never seen it used in the meaning of "breaking", so athruithe briste isn't very convincing as a translation of "breaking changes"; it would probably rather be understood as "broken changes".

So some kind of rephrasing is helpful: athruithe atá ag briseadh

I found this definition online:
"breaking-change: A change in one part of a software system that causes other parts to fail."

So another possibility maybe: athruithe a chliseann

Conaire · **Joined:** Sat 12 May 2018 9:33 pm **Posts:** 7

Thanks guys.

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