Caitriona Balfe Teaches Conan A Gaelic Phrase

Caitriona Balfe Teaches Conan A Gaelic Phrase - CONAN on TBS

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(Original airdate: 05/25/16) Even though Caitriona is Irish, she's spent so much time in America that she's nearly lost her Irish brogue.
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@HyButchan 2 жыл бұрын

Her Irish accent is very clear. She is just a well-spoken Irish person. Americans are expecting to hear an Irish accent from the bogs and are not used to a standard clear Irish accent.

@markwaldron8954 2 жыл бұрын

The exact opposite is true.

@hyperrat12 2 жыл бұрын

@@markwaldron8954 not at all.

@bighands69 2 жыл бұрын

It is not a strong irish accent and is very mild.

@hyperrat12 2 жыл бұрын

@@bighands69 I've just been around Irish people my whole life and the only person who's accent I can't detect is my ma. Other than her Irish accents are VERY obvious to me

@bighands69 2 жыл бұрын

@@hyperrat12 If you listen carefully you can hear many of the accents but when it comes to mild accents that are subtle it can be hard. I have mistakenly misidentified Scottish and Northern English accents for Irish. You can get people in Scotland that sound like they are from Northern Ireland.

@jeffhegarty 2 жыл бұрын

Her Irish accent, when speaking English, is still noticeable. If I remember my Wikipedia correctly, she's from Monaghan. The phrase she used is pure Ulster Irish, almost native-speaker standard. That's the part that impressed me.

@Monaghan Жыл бұрын

Up Monaghan. As someone from there myself I can barely hear her accent at all tbh.

@jeffhegarty Жыл бұрын

@@Monaghan It's not strong when she speaks English, that's for sure

@moorenicola6264 Жыл бұрын

If she from Monaghan that definitely is not a Monaghan accent! She sounds like she has a neutral Dublin accent with a little American mixed in.

@jeffhegarty Жыл бұрын

@@moorenicola6264 She's been in the US a long time, but has remained true to her roots (insofar as that's possible). That's what the Outlander series is all about in the end

@pio4362 11 ай бұрын

@@moorenicola6264 South (bourgeois to posh) Dublin to be precise, with standard American mixed in. The South Dublin is odd hearing on a Monaghan person, she must have spent a lot of time in the big smoke before going off to the States.

@melps2124 2 жыл бұрын

She totally sounds Irish to me. Not thick accent but you can hear it.

@ciarabyrne4952 3 ай бұрын

Exactly like my accent it's soft

@BlakieTT 3 жыл бұрын

She is gorgeousssssssss!

@blackibex 2 жыл бұрын

Conan is a Gaelic male name that is common mainly in England and Ireland. It is derived from the Gaelic root word cú with a diminutive suffix and means "little wolf".

@catsy26 7 ай бұрын

Not wolf. Hound. My surname is Conlon.

@blackibex 7 ай бұрын

@@catsy26 You're right.

@michaelcullen5308 3 жыл бұрын

I think she sounds completely Irish.

@stargazer0480 2 жыл бұрын

Nah, very anglicised. Just like Soirise Ronin

@amritawhitman8112 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. It's not very pronounced because she's obviously worked on developing a standard British English dialect which she uses well in Outlander, but I can definitely hear traces of the Irish accent during interviews.

@oceantree5000 2 жыл бұрын

@@stargazer0480 …whom one could immediately identify as Irish when hearing her speak naturally… 🤷‍♀️

@oceantree5000 2 жыл бұрын

@@trevoroconnor7133 Hm. Doesnt sound West Country to me, really. I heard her speaking and asked my wife, “who’s the Irish lady?”

@rsvihla 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds Irish to me.

@harperwalsh9041 Жыл бұрын

For those wondering, the phrase she said is spelt "tá tú comh chamtha le cos deireadh madaidh"

@timfronimos459 2 жыл бұрын

She's outta the box beautiful!

@janewolfe9137 2 жыл бұрын

She is so charming!

@colmwhateveryoulike3240 2 жыл бұрын

She sounds very much Irish with only a few hints here and there that she's lived in America for a while. What Conan doesn't understand is that there are multiple distinct accents for each of the 32 counties in the island of Ireland.

@bighands69 2 жыл бұрын

It is not a strong Irish accent and probably is her tv voice.

@colmwhateveryoulike3240 2 жыл бұрын

@@bighands69 Definitely a hint of the D4/RTE accent alright. I thought she sounded mainly Dublin with the odd hint of midlands at first but right enough now you mention it.

@helenamcaree8352 2 жыл бұрын

@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 I think the thing is that people rarely hear Monaghan accents in particular, and depending on the part of the county you either sound exactly like her or really, really Northern. Her vowels are still really flat though, which is a very distinctly Cavan/Monaghan/Louth I don't hear in the rest of the country as much.

@colmwhateveryoulike3240 2 жыл бұрын

@@helenamcaree8352 Ah is that it? That wouldn't be the first time I've been caught out by a Monaghan accent now you mention it.

@Aaron-he3qd 2 жыл бұрын

@Colm Whateveryoulike No I don’t think that is a Dublin sounding accent at all. I’ve always found Monaghan/ Cavan accents to have a bit of a twang which could be mistaken for American

@Nickee_Sonicjinn 3 жыл бұрын

I love listening to Caitriona Balfe's interview because she's such a great speaker who really has a plethora of knowledge and ideas about her work but this compiled version of the interview is just too short! Give us the full version of their conversation, Team Coco! 😏💚🧡💛

@mytube001 3 жыл бұрын

Irish spelling is actually very logical and highly regular. It might look daunting and strange to an English speaker, but it's far from the mess that is English spelling. Once you learn the rules of Irish spelling (they're not very complicated or numerous), you can read and speak just about any word or sentence you find, despite not understanding the meaning. There are a few, fairly rare exceptions that rely on knowledge of grammar to pronounce correctly, but apart from that, it's easy!

@michaelcullen5308 3 жыл бұрын

I would agree that it’s logical and regular. But I would also say it’s overdue the kind of spelling reform that English has undergone over the centuries. It might even attract more people to the language if, for instance, Leary wasn’t spelled “Laoghaire”. I know that’s an easy word for natives, but to foreigners it’s impenetrable.

@mytube001 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcullen5308 Irish spelling was last reformed (in a way) within living memory. English, on the other hand, has never undergone a formal spelling reform. English has simply evolved naturally, but due to the significant changes in pronunciation over 800 years, English spelling is no longer phonetic. It hasn't been close to phonetic since the 1300s! Irish is probably more phonetic now than it was 150-200 years ago, when it was still widely spoken natively (and monolingually by many), since the writing system today influences new learners.

@donaloflynn 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcullen5308 I'm all for reform of Irish spelling and grammar, but doing away with historically significant spellings is a terrible idea from a heritage perspective. My mother named me Donal O'Flynn, an Anglicised spelling of Domhnall Ó Floinn meaning "the ruler of the world descended from ruddy faced men" (cool I know!). I would never put Domhnall Ó Floinn on my passport or identity documents as speakers of American English can't even fathom the o apostrophe, but it is going to be on my business card as an Irish language journalist in the coming years.

@SofiaBerruxSubs 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcullen5308 English never had a spelling reform

@willhqAUS 2 жыл бұрын

Consider the words "daughter" vs. "laughter" or "ration" vs "nation" vs "cation" (last one out there a bit... negatively charged ion).

@hugostiglitz6914 2 жыл бұрын

She sounds totally Irish. CoB has no idea what he's talking about. The irish accent changes from county to county.

@bighands69 2 жыл бұрын

Her accent is very mild and can be hard to pick up.

@moorenicola6264 Жыл бұрын

Not just from county to county. You could go five miles in any county and the accent has changed.

@mircas1964 2 жыл бұрын

She's stunning!

@Cork_UO 2 жыл бұрын

You can clearly hear the Irish accent.

@vickie30 2 жыл бұрын

She is so beautiful..

@andreo.7633 Жыл бұрын

Dude what a beauty oh wow

@DennisHecox 2 жыл бұрын

omg i love her laughs

@cczwhite 2 жыл бұрын

Finally an Irish celebrity that speaks Irish!! Woooh

@oceantree5000 2 жыл бұрын

Conor McGregor speaks some Irish as well; he went to bunscoil, I believe.

@cczwhite 2 жыл бұрын

@@oceantree5000 oh yeah I forgot about that, thank you

@oceantree5000 2 жыл бұрын

@@cczwhite tá fáilte romhat!

@TheAyla2004 2 жыл бұрын

@@oceantree5000 was he the one with the famous go amach phase

@oceantree5000 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAyla2004 níl fhios agam!

@Agoscastro98 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so in love with her

@mubashirlatif1479 2 жыл бұрын

Love her!

@StoveyStoveTop 2 жыл бұрын

“Gaelic” is Scottish. Irish is Irish. (Gaeilge is the OG name for the Irish language) Surprised Caitriona didn’t correct Conan, but she’s just so polite and graceful. And oh boyo, how graceful she was in Belfast. A fantastic film…Thank you, Kenneth Branagh!

@glasgowbrian1469 2 жыл бұрын

Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic are spelt the same in English, but the Scots pronounce it “Gallic”.

@silverkitty2503 2 жыл бұрын

@@glasgowbrian1469 no they are not ...im irish its GAEILGE for irish ...and gaelic or gallic ...for scots gallic ..and gaeilge is pronounced gwailge they are not spelt the same nor pronounced the same.

@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 2 жыл бұрын

We generally don't ad not to shame them

@craigmorrison1353 Жыл бұрын

@@silverkitty2503 Gallic is the ancient Gaul language. We just pronounce Gaelic like that when referring to the language because our own word is Gàidhlig. The other pronunciation is usually used when talking generally about Gaelic languages and culture as a whole.

@kascally Жыл бұрын

Gaelic is a perfectly good word to describe the Irish language. Consider that the Gaelic Athletic Association is the official body in charge of indigenous Irish sports. There is Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic, also known as Erse.

@peteowen3539 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@theflyingshamanthegreatmin9788 7 ай бұрын

She definitely has an Irish accent, the more the video goes on the clearer that becomes.

@agafilmscine4354 3 жыл бұрын

Very natural!!

@mikepolupan357 2 жыл бұрын

My sister is watching the outlanders tv show and my lord she’s beautiful.

@lauraisaacson6252 2 жыл бұрын

And much better when she's not on Outlander, a glorified soap opera

@abitofcraic 3 жыл бұрын

In fact, Coinín actually means rabbit in Irish 😂

@SuperFred001 3 жыл бұрын

In Belgium we say konijn wich is pretty similar I never knew

@user-ei8ye8yn7p 3 жыл бұрын

In Greek is "koniklos" or "kouneli"

@killthemage5856 2 жыл бұрын

In Filipino it's "Kuneho" which comes from the spanish "conejo". This thread is awesome

@andersonvillela9015 2 жыл бұрын

And in Portuguese, its "Coelho" lol

@emidotcom. 2 жыл бұрын

”Kanin” in swedish

@retrothingz Жыл бұрын

O'Brien's Irish shtick at the 1.00 minute mark is hilarious

@joseapsantos3633 3 жыл бұрын

Boa noite, uma linda mulher, majestosa. Adorei o vídeo.

@georgemackenzie3676 2 жыл бұрын

People think her accent sounds American? Sounds quite Irish to me actually...

@chess4072 Жыл бұрын

I don't know much about Irish but Conan O'Brien SCREAMS Irish to me. I searched it up to make sure and both names are of Irish origin 😭

@chyl0764 2 жыл бұрын

I love her so much. So does my wife.

@JK-ln5fo Жыл бұрын

I miss conan

@mm9773 2 жыл бұрын

What? You can tell she’s Irish during the first sentence. When she says “ear”, at the very latest.

@S1L3NTG4M3R 3 жыл бұрын

she's nice

@erangaedirimanne1315 8 ай бұрын

You'r so breathtaking.. I can listen all day every day

@cr112784 3 жыл бұрын

Bent as a dogs hind leg but sounds so so beautiful!

@Paul-sl9zm 11 күн бұрын

Lovely posh Irish accent ❤

@solarblitzX 3 жыл бұрын

DAE think she looks like Ellie Kemper? I swear I thought it was her!

@thebrowneyedbrunette5275 3 жыл бұрын

Same!! I thought it was her at first and I was like, is Erin Irish?!

@liberty2308 3 жыл бұрын

She is like an elongated Ellie Kemper!

@rishabh3687 2 жыл бұрын

Look at how huge Conan's head looks in comparsion to hers. Its crazy.

@Aaron-he3qd 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always found the Monaghan accent and some northern accents have a bit of a twang which could be mistaken for American but I can still here the Irish in her accent.

@doriswaddington2418 2 жыл бұрын

Claire!!

@-----REDACTED----- 11 ай бұрын

Oh she has without doubt a lovely and clearly noticeable Irish accent. The heck Conan?!

@aiassistedclips Жыл бұрын

I love everything Irish.

@Darraghcollins 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Irish and iv never seen or heard of her. But she's extremely beautiful 😍

@jasperstuut 3 жыл бұрын

Those leggs..🔥

@borismuller86 3 жыл бұрын

*BONK*

@thatBroErick 3 жыл бұрын

Those legs go to heaven, every time.

@hindsightpov4218 3 жыл бұрын

Those legs walked down the Victoria’s Secret runway.

@HigherPlanes 3 жыл бұрын

Your ripped the words right outta my mouth.

@glasgowbrian1469 2 жыл бұрын

To recognise accents properly, you need to have lived in the place the accent comes from. Then you will know the many variations that exist in society strata and place. My soft well spoken Glasgow accent is recognised by Glaswegians, but not the English where I’ve now lived for over 50 years. Some think I'm Irish, and I’ve made mistakes as well. Now I can recognise an accent from a village that’s only 6 miles away, because I worked part time in a bar there in a farming community. The farm labourers spoke quite differently to the London commuters who now live there. I once had an argument with an English person who refused to believe that Hardeep Singh Kholi, a turbaned Punjabi BBC presenter was from Glasgow. I love the Glasgow accents of male Punjabis and girls of Indian heritage. And the accent of a Scottish highland lassie just melts me. I found the soft Irish accent of a Kerry Irish doctor was so nice to listen to, when I visited Kerry. Just ignore political boundaries, it’s the people that matter.

@moorenicola6264 Жыл бұрын

I hate the term "well spoken". It implies that those who do not have the same accent as you are poorly spoken and somehow lesser than you. Not nice.

@IosuamacaMhadaidh Жыл бұрын

About the name Conan; Etymology. From Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ Interesting side note, in Welsh dog is Ci, and Scots Gaelic Cù.

@ceciliawallerstrom8666 2 жыл бұрын

She is fantastisk 😍🤩

@GayorgVonTrapp 2 жыл бұрын

That woman is BOSS.

@veronicadredd22 2 жыл бұрын

she definitely has an Irish accent, No one calls the language Gaelic, Its called Irish or Gaeilge

@theflyingshamanthegreatmin9788 7 ай бұрын

In Ulster they do call it Gaelic, there's different regional dialects. very few irish people speak Irish or Irish Gaelic.

@keysersoze5920 2 жыл бұрын

Classy lady with terrific legs!

@kiltilly98 2 жыл бұрын

The Language is IRISH (Gaeilge). Go order a book or audio to learn to speak GAELIC and you will be learning the Gaelic Language of Scotland. If you wish to learn the Gaelic language spoken in Ireland than you had better order books and audio on Irish.

@fromireland8663 2 жыл бұрын

@Mylie Doherty. "Gaelic" is a perfectly valid English adjective to describe anything associated with the Gaels, including the gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. Pedantic or what !!!

@fromireland8663 2 жыл бұрын

@patrick newton you're right.

@moorenicola6264 Жыл бұрын

@@fromireland8663 no it is not valid. Gaelic is an adjective in Ireland not the name of our language.

@AmedBenlafkih Жыл бұрын

Irish people speaking american accent it's normal for me but her english accent in outlander is so good i dont know how she do it

@JohnSmith-nf8bi 3 жыл бұрын

“My wife and I love the name neev ore nev...”

@moorenicola6264 Жыл бұрын

The proper spelling is Niamh.

@Pathfinder4604 2 жыл бұрын

If Conan drinks alcohol probably his Irish accent will be back too, lol. WE MISS YOU GUYS!!!!

@vinniegigante6810 3 жыл бұрын

My name is Vincent... in Gaelic it’s Uinseann , crazy lol

@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720 2 жыл бұрын

We still use the Irish language a lot . The old timers use it in prison so the British gaurds can’t understand what they’re saying. Just another weapon against the British oppressors 🍀🇮🇪🥃🤣🤣🤣

@foxman4455 2 жыл бұрын

she's 37 here?!?!?!? WOW

@Zetsuke4 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@catsy26 7 ай бұрын

Conan is pronounced "Kun-Awn" in Ireland. It means "little hound".

@sonofJurell 2 жыл бұрын

I knew a few Irish people. My manager was Irish and his accents was very light. A woman joined my company and for the first few weeks I spoke to her I thought she was Dutch until I asked her what part of Holland she was from and then told me she was from southern Ireland.

@victorocallaghan6791 3 ай бұрын

She has a posh Irish accent. Upper class dublin accent

@dazza4345 8 ай бұрын

Her accent is 100 percent Irish.

@Jordothecat98 3 жыл бұрын

As a giant Irish Conan fan, genuinely asking (not hating) why does Conan’s channel have way lower views then the other late night shows that suck? It seems so odd

@TheMijman 3 жыл бұрын

Because he's not political, and doesn't conform to normal late-night rules. They do their own thing.

@lexiehua1457 3 жыл бұрын

And he doesn’t pay for bots

@owenmccord5078 3 жыл бұрын

Unless something has changed, he’s also the only big one that’s on cable as opposed to one of the big networks.

@SuperFred001 3 жыл бұрын

Because people are to stupid now they like the bullshit

@silverkitty2503 Жыл бұрын

@@owenmccord5078 I have heard he doesn't get on with people and is hard to work with.

@johnathanbennett6260 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Wish I could practice my Gaelic with her.

@ciaran6309 2 жыл бұрын

Catriona is irish name itself. Meaning Catherine

@BadDubII Жыл бұрын

Her accent defo comes and goes

@DEvilParsnip 3 жыл бұрын

Didnt know she was irish ... says an irish man..... niceeeeeeee

@loeuvrededieu 2 жыл бұрын

I think if you're used to Irish accents you can hear her Irish accent, otherwise it's not that obvious

@avatr7109 3 жыл бұрын

she's pretty tho

@ElTurbinado 3 жыл бұрын

😍😍😍

@CrackaPackify 2 жыл бұрын

She's just well spoken, like yeah she doesn't have a real culchie Monaghan accent, but she's very obviously Irish

@Gonkawonga 2 жыл бұрын

Her accent is D4 south dublin

@kimothemo 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Kimmy Schmidt. Damn it!

@EmmaWismyhero 6 күн бұрын

She sounds sooo Irish to me as an American

@rusenakman 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@808zhu 3 жыл бұрын

She's got legs... And knows how to use them. 👍

@Gentleben06 3 жыл бұрын

😍🔥❤

@rockraprecords5198 2 жыл бұрын

E is Silent in Gaelic

@redearthpaul178 2 жыл бұрын

She has an Irish accent the my ear

@irishoak7269 Жыл бұрын

It's still very strong sounding on her "R's"

@robertroddy 2 жыл бұрын

see Belfast

@lauraisaacson6252 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@scribbles398 2 жыл бұрын

Gaelic 💀

@1920sBuffaloGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful black Irish.

@melvin4976 3 жыл бұрын

Ellie Kempner’s Irish accent isn’t believable AT ALL

@Eochaidh32 6 ай бұрын

It's "Irish"! I'm an American raised in an Irish Neighborhood in San Francisco and we had many Irish speakers and learned early that Gaelic was the language spoken in Scotland. She should have corrected the amadán!

@andrewhooper5645 2 жыл бұрын

Nice stems

@lonelyone 3 жыл бұрын

Legs

@williamgregory1848 2 жыл бұрын

1:04

@zulkhairyzulfakar3653 2 жыл бұрын

Dangsuria

@patrickmcsheoinin4808 2 жыл бұрын

There's many Irish accents

@SofiaBerruxSubs Жыл бұрын

Gaelic is derived from the spelling of Gaelige so for American to call it Gaelic isn't wrong. We refer to it as Scottish and irish Gaelic two different versions but still Gaelic.

@rong2912 2 жыл бұрын

Macushla

@liberty2308 3 жыл бұрын

English is my second language and I feel my accent shifting depending on the kind of English I’m exposed to at the moment. When I was watching crown, it shifted toward the British English and now that I’m in love with Moira from Schitt’s creek, it is just weird...

@RojaJaneman 3 жыл бұрын

Min switches to British to New Jersey to Standard American depending on the people I’m around. And I have zero control over it. Used to freak me out!!

@nalajskrik6720 2 жыл бұрын

English is my second language too, and I try to get rid of my norwegian accent, and I sound more british english now. I also try the scottish one, is so beautiful.

@SuperFred001 3 жыл бұрын

Is he back in studio or is this old

@istdochallesegal3427 3 жыл бұрын

Old

@SuperFred001 3 жыл бұрын

@@istdochallesegal3427 oh yeah forgot he got that new studio before corona

@Darraghcollins 2 жыл бұрын

Good thing as Irish we aren't as easily offended as everyone else 🙂

@eoinoconnor5783 6 ай бұрын

That doesn’t mean we all can’t find things offensive/ annoying. I have no issue with this but some things just aren’t amusing anymore.

@LokeshThakur 11 ай бұрын

shes an irish jennifer lawrence

@siofra3819 Жыл бұрын

Irish is the first and original Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, derived from Middle Irish. Irish is just called Irish

@silverkitty2503 Жыл бұрын

goidelic was the first gaelic language ...irish came out of it..and the others yes you are correct.

@maggiecollins1099 2 жыл бұрын

she has an Irish accent

@jessester2759 7 ай бұрын

She IS Irish.

@maggiecollins1099 6 ай бұрын

i know @@jessester2759

@PureChivalry 2 жыл бұрын

Conan I spotted an Error!!!! When you said you looked up Conan in Gaelic, it meant "wide head." Well according to Google, Conan, actually is derived from Gaelic, and it means small wolf. Give yourself more credit brother. We share the same birthday too! Take care!! 😄

@silverkitty2503 2 жыл бұрын

it doesn't mean small wolf ....it can't possibly mean anything little if you know the grammar of irish ...every little ends in ín or een ....the diminutive sufix needs to be een or í like coinín which means rabbit completely different sound also slender vowels don't evolve into broad ones easily in irish wolf in irish is mac tíre ...literally son of the land ...Cu means hound or dog ...so it would be closer to hound or dog ..but not little

@PureChivalry 2 жыл бұрын

@@silverkitty2503 This name derives from the Irish name “Conán”, composed of two Gaelic elements: “cú” (wolf, hound) plus “diminutive suffix (nán)” (little). In turn the name means “little wolf, little hound”. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author who wrote the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. 1) Conan I †992) nicknamed “Le Tort” was the Duke of Brittany from 990 to his death. 2) Conan II of Rennes (~1033-1066) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death. 3) Conán mac Morna is a member of the fianna and an ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. You can't just take the first Google response that pops up. That's why you need to know the origin of the name and not the person. My parents could have named me kunte kinte, I still wouldn't be African.... lol

@silverkitty2503 2 жыл бұрын

@@PureChivalry im a native irish speaker ...dude stop it ...i know what it means its like saying john means god is gracious ....its just a catholic name now..its not even from ireland its from the isle of man...whatever language it came from evolved into something else

@PureChivalry 2 жыл бұрын

@@silverkitty2503 that's great that you speak Irish and still don't know the origin of the Scottish gaelic name. Good luck with your half hearted lessons on a language you don't speak lol

@silverkitty2503 2 жыл бұрын

@@PureChivalry The surname Conan comes from the Irish surname O Cuanain (O'Conein and MacConein) and is derived from the Irish Cuinin for "rabbit", son of Dugal. im a native speaker ..from the actual gaeltacht my parents speak irish and my grandparents speak it ..so ahem. The idea it comes from Cú makes no sense because Cú has always been an ancient word for hound or domestic dog not a wolfe. Wolf is mac tire ..literally son of the land. Cuinin and o Cuanain ..would sound VERY like conan to an english speaker ...whereas Cú nan ..or whatever sounds nothing like it and makes no sense. Im really quite astounded at the fact that several irish people have said it means rabbit ...and yet all the americans seem to think because they read some crap about a language they dont speak they understand it. Mac Conein ...to you would literally sound like Mc Conan....that is where the name comes from and it means rabbit ...