Helpful for me to know that. If anyone knows of others that'd be great. I can weed through them.

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Suzanne D. Williams is a native Floridian, wife, and mother with a penchant for spelling things and an Irishman somewhere way back in her background.

"Damn you!" is Damnú ort ! literally "damnation on you!".

Most of the words in the list can be used as derogatory comments about a person. By putting them in the vocative case, they become direct insults:

amadán "an idiot" => a amadáin ! (you) "Idiot!"
óinseach "a fool (of a woman)" => a óinseach ! (you) "Fool!

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

If you say "a óinseach" to a boy, its similar to calling him a lttle girl or "a big girl's blouse" etc...

Should that not be "a Óinsigh", no?

"Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat" may the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

Go dtaga an buinneach buí ort may you be struck with the yellow diarrhoia

These are more curses!

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Please wait for corrections/ more input from other forum members before acting on advice

Wow, that'll do it. LOL.

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Suzanne D. Williams is a native Floridian, wife, and mother with a penchant for spelling things and an Irishman somewhere way back in her background.

I guess it depends upon your interpretation of oath, I take it to mean a curse or swear word not just a nasty name. Calling someone lumpish or bitter, etc doesn't seem to fit.

Well, I haven't written the scene yet, so anything I get is helpful. It gives me things to pick from when I get there.

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Suzanne D. Williams is a native Floridian, wife, and mother with a penchant for spelling things and an Irishman somewhere way back in her background.

Yes, very much so, but I collect lists of terms and expressions as part of my studying.



and my favorite:

Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire de chnámh do dhroma is é ag piocadh úll i ngairdín Ifrinn!
May the devil make a ladder from the bones of your back while picking apples in the garden of hell!

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Óinseach is a feminine noun so I am thinking "no". I expect it to function like gealach, vocative a ghealach, hence a óinseach.

Clarification by more advanced speakers would be welcome.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Well, I don't know if I'm more advanced, but the vocative would be A Óinseach in most dialects, as it is a feminine noun.

However in Munster there is a tendency to inflect feminine words as if they were masculine in the vocative. So in
Munster you have A Óinsigh.

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The dialect I use is Cork Irish.
Ar sgáth a chéile a mhairid na daoine, lag agus láidir, uasal is íseal

The confusion may arise because whilst people may regularly have the opportunity to use 'amadán', there aren't the same opportunities to use 'óinseach'......

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