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(Cod liver is coirce is salainn is piobair gan cuir am broinn iasg) is ga chur a

English translation: coirce = oats, salainn = salt, piobair = pepper

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Gaelic term or phrase:	(Cod liver is coirce is salainn is piobair gan cuir am broinn iasg) is ga chur a
English translation:	coirce = oats, salainn = salt, piobair = pepper
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15:57 Jan 7, 2008

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Gaelic term or phrase: (Cod liver is coirce is salainn is piobair gan cuir am broinn iasg) is ga chur a

A recipe? for a traditional gaelic dish

Philip Allan

coirce = oats etc

Explanation:
well, coirce = oats, salainn = salt and piobair = pepper.

Not sure what am broinn means, that's Scots as far as I know.

I don't know Scots Gaelic v well, so I'm going by my knowledge of Irish Gaelic instead. :)

However it seems you only have a fragment of the sentence there, there should be more after the verb 'chur'. :)

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Note added at 28 mins (2008-01-07 16:26:28 GMT)
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ah wait a sec - did you see the recipe from this site? http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/aite/Sleite/morag_bheag.ht...

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Note added at 30 mins (2008-01-07 16:28:27 GMT)
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in that case iasg isn't a typo, it is just Scots Gaelic dialect. :)

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Orla Ryan
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Local time: 02:26

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am broinn

CadeR

coirce = oats etc

Orla Ryan

cod liver and oats (or corn) and salt and pepper

EdithK

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29 mins confidence:

cod liver and oats (or corn) and salt and pepper

Explanation:
should be placed inside the fish (broinn is breast actually)

EdithK
Local time: 03:26
Native speaker of:

German,

English

27 mins confidence:

coirce = oats etc

Orla Ryan
Ireland
Local time: 02:26
Native speaker of:

English

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540 days confidence:

am broinn

Explanation:
A little late to this discussion, but I can help.

The phrase is dialectal Gaelic, possibly Lewis dialect, but I'm not positive there.

What I am sure of is this: "Broinn" is technically the dative form of "brù" that means specifically "belly"or "womb." Some dialects use "broinn" as the nominative form too. Anyhow, to say "in the belly" you'd say "ann am broinn." Yet in some dialects this got shortened to just "am broinn" to more generally mean "inside" although it usually refers to the "belly" --literally or figuratively--of the thing. Like "am broinn a' char" = "inside the car," referring to being inside the passenger space or "belly" of the car.

The "gam" and "ga" are a little complicated: generally they'd mean "at them" and "at him/it" but here in this dialectal usage, they more or less indicate a sort of passive tense:

Cod liver and oats and salt and pepper--they (collectively) are put inside (the belly of) a fish and it (the stuffed fish) is put (in the pot)

CadeR

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