{"id":99,"date":"2007-09-21T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T08:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/irish-word-galore\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T08:33:26","slug":"irish-word-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/irish-word-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Word: galore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with an English loanword that originated in Irish: galore<\/em>. In context: “Once I discovered the library’s DVD collection, I had movies galore.” Or, “When he took a photograph of the customs area, it was security guards galore.”<\/p>\n

“Galore” is derived from the Irish, “go Leor,” meaning “enough.” As you can see, the English version is just a minor change of spelling.<\/p>\n

“Ceart go Leor” means “Everything is alright” in Irish — at least in Cork, it does. I think that “ceart” means “just” or “very” in this context.<\/p>\n

“Maith go Leor” is sometimes spelled “mongalore,” which is closer to the English pronunciation. “Maith go Leor” means “doing alright” in eastern parts of Ireland; it has a connotation closer to “tipsy” in western parts. (from Dolan’s Dictionary of Hiberno-English)<\/p>\n

So if you wanted to be clever this weekend, you could say, for example, “D’ya tink Dave was a bit mongalore last night? He must have been celebrating his Bugle awards.”<\/p>\n

Warning: Speculation<\/em>
\nI don’t understand Irish grammar yet, but I think that the word “go” is a verb-modifier somewhat like “to” in English — as in, “I’m going to<\/em> build a bench.” I’ll find some books to become better informed, but I’m swamped right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s start with an English loanword that originated in Irish: galore. In context: “Once I discovered the library’s DVD collection, I had movies galore.” Or, “When he took a photograph of the customs area, it was security guards galore.” “Galore” is derived from the Irish, “go Leor,” meaning “enough.” As you can see, the English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}