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>It was from this story that Oweynagat got its name, which is Irish Gaelic for ‘the cave of cats’. Kinda strange "Oweynagat" doesn't sound like an Irish word .
by lawlessone 8y ago
>It was from this story that Oweynagat got its name, which is Irish Gaelic for ‘the cave of cats’.
Kinda strange "Oweynagat" doesn't sound like an Irish word . The actual Irish would be "an uaimh cait" ,it might have been anglicized.
- diarmuidie 8y agoMore like "Uaimh na gCat" (If my, admittedly, fairly rusty Irish is anything to go by).
- lawlessone 8y ago>fairly rusty Irish mines worse
- smaccona 8y ago"Cat" in Irish is a masculine noun of the first declension, so the genitive plural for "cave of cats" would be "uaimh na gcat" - it's easier to see the Anglicization then into "Oweynagat".
- lawlessone 8y agoyeah that makes a lot more sense, i'm years out of school and i was never good at Irish but the word stuck out.