Does anyone know the irish for psychiatric nurse and mental health nurse?

GRMA

Looks like it is banaltra shíciatrach.
I think you can also say banaltra shíciatrachta.

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

I think Bríd and Gumbi told us somewhere that ban- is no longer appended.

Focal.ie backs this up, though the terms are only there indirectly:

altra síciatrach "psychiatric nurse"

altra meabhairshláinte "mental health nurse"

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

as far as I know, the word for "nurse" in Irish is "banaltra". There is even a traditional song whose title is "an bhanaltra". Cad é atá i gceist agad?



meabhairshláinte is a calque of English "mental health", made by an English speaker. Sláinte mheabhrach would be more Irish in my opinion.

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Opinions are fine, Lughaidh but the official terms are as I stated.

You can however make an application to Foras na Gaeilge to have the terms reviewed. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

The 'ban' has gone from banaltra, bangharda etc. In our new pc society, a person is just an altra or a Garda. It really was a bit harsh calling a male nurse a banaltra!

We have even allowed a man to become president again.....!

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Meh, we still do it. Sygeplejerske is our word, where the ending -ske is a suffix that makes feminine titles (like forfatterske ‘female writer’), and we use it for both genders. No need to changing perfectly common words just so you can’t go looking for possibly un-PC etymological material in them.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

I don't care about official terms. What counts, is what native speakers say. Not what people may make up in their offices. You may know what Gaeltacht people think about these odd words, Bríd already told us a bit about these...



call him "altra", and then use banaltra when talking about a woman.



Likewise, in French, a midwife, even when it's a man, is called a sage-femme (which means "wise woman"). Btw how do you call a midwife in English if it's a man?

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Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

In the case of Irish, altra ("nourisher, nurse, foster father", see Dinneen) is the original, bean altra and later banaltra are the derivatives.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Yes, but the meaning ‘nurse’ for altra is newer than the word banaltra. The meaning of altra was a foster-father only (it’s from the same root as oil ‘to raise, foster, educate, train’). The derived meaning of ‘someone who cares for people who are ill’ is something that arose with the derived form banaltra. Removing ban- changes the meaning of the original word.

In Danish, sygeplejer is also the original, transparent word (‘sick-nurser’ or ‘sick-carer’), and the -ske suffix was added on to that (‘sick-nurseress’ or ‘sick-careress’), but like banaltra, it’s become such a set word that it’s just used as is, regardless of gender, and without anyone really thinking of the suffix as being a femininising suffix in that word anymore.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.