Hello mwhite55-ga,
As I've noted on another Gaelic translation question, I do not speak,
read, or write any kind of Gaelic. (See
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=146595 .)
However, I seem to be good at translating, and I believe I've found
the answer.
In Irish Gaelic, "white house" appears to be "teach bán", "tí bháin",
or "teach bhán", depending on the grammatical case of the noun in the
phrase. The words are capitalized for the White House, as in the
building in Washington, D.C.
Results of search for "white house" "teach bán"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+white+house%22+%22Teach+B%C3%A1n%22&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0
Results of seach for: "white house" "tí bháin"
Google
://www.google.com/search?q=%22white+house%22+%22t%C3%AD+bh%C3%A1in%22&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0
Results of search for: "teach bhán"
Google
://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=%22teach+bh%E1n%22
Results of search for: "teach"
Gaelic Languages Info
http://www.ceantar.org/cgi-bin/grmqsearch.cgi/Irish?teach
Results of search for: "bán"
Gaelic Languages Info
http://www.ceantar.org/cgi-bin/grmqsearch.cgi/Irish?b%E1n+
An alternative appears to be "teach geal", or presumably "tí ghil" in
the genitive case, though I haven't found that phrase.
Results of search for: "teach geal"
Google
://www.google.com/search?q=%22teach+geal%22&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0
Results of search for: "geal"
Gaelic Languages Info
http://www.ceantar.org/cgi-bin/grmqsearch.cgi/Irish?geal
Meanwhile, "tigh geal" appears to be the basic phrase for "white
house" in Scottish Gaelic.
Results of search for: "white house" "tigh geal"
Google
://www.google.com/search?q=%22white+house%22+%22tigh+geal%22&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0
- justaskscott-ga
Search terms used on Google, in addition to the phrases listed in the
answer, and the component words thereof:
irish
scottish
gaelic |