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    I'm still kinda crap with gaelic, but my sisiter's pretty good and she had this to say...
    "Wouldn't be dread, but fear is eagal and belly is sort of maodal... again you can't translate directly from english to gaelic especially as belly is a slang word. Mhionach is kinda... tummy"

    So... Eagalmaodal??? Eagalmhionach???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arlen View Post
    So... Eagalmaodal??? Eagalmhionach???
    ok,... now how is either of those pronounced? one thing i have learned about Gaelic is that there is an endless supply of letters. i know that "ceilidhe" is simply pronounced "kay-lee"

    and for the record Dreadbelly, i knew what you were after, i was being a smart-a55 purely for my own amusement.

    (it is on my list of things-to-do-before-i-die, to learn Gaelic.)

    ... pardon, i am high on cold medicine and my brain won't shut-up.... so if "Dreadbelly" gets translated into Gaelic and it ends up being morphed into either "Fear Tummy" or "Fear Stomach", perhaps we should start again with a different set of root words.... so the question i would pose toward those with a Gaelic tongue would be: how do you succinctly say horror + fat man or gluttonous man or large man? (i mean no offense Mr. Belly).

    cause it is the spirit of the word "Dreadbelly" that you are wanting to convey, yes?

    while i'm thinking on it, what is the etymology of "Dreadbelly"?

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    However, each of those "new" names have quite a ring to 'em!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arlen View Post
    I'm still kinda crap with gaelic, but my sisiter's pretty good and she had this to say...
    "Wouldn't be dread, but fear is eagal and belly is sort of maodal... again you can't translate directly from english to gaelic especially as belly is a slang word. Mhionach is kinda... tummy"

    So... Eagalmaodal??? Eagalmhionach???
    No doubt pronounced "Chumley"
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