"An páiste nua."

Translation: The new child.

[O-Raghallaigh]

Since the new voice has been added I've noticed she pronounces 'nua' like 'noo' (or at least thats what it sounds like to my anglophone ear.) Is this a dialectal variation or was the 'nooah' pronounciation I learned in school a bit off?

[Conchuir]

It looks to be a dialectal difference. I learned 'noo-ah' in school also. The sole recording on Forvo pronounces the a: http://forvo.com/word/nua/#ga but on Teanglann only the Ulster speaker does so, with the Munster and Connacht speakers saying 'noo': http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/nua .

[SatharnPHL]

Listen to all of the other phrases on teanglann.ie that include nua - in many of them the Munster speaker pronounces the a in nua.

[Eikoopmit]

Is there a specific word meaning "baby", or is it just "páiste nua"?

[Cathal42]

leanbh is infant/baby, babaí is a lone word for baby

[Eikoopmit]

Thanks.

[afroceltic]

An páiste nua ar an mbloc?

[Clumsypoot]

Does this indicate a newborn child?

[scilling]

Nua is usable in the same ways as “new”, so it could be a newborn, a new adoptee, a new pupil in a school, etc.

[Clumsypoot]

Thanks!

[AinePoilin]

Could 'nua' also mean 'modern'?

[SatharnPHL]

No. I'm not sure when you would refer to a "modern child", but you would say páiste nua-aimseartha, or even páiste de chuid an lae inniu in Irish.