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Username: Antonbryl
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 10:03 am: |   
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1. How to pronounce correctly the name of fairy "shefros" in Irish? According to Croker, the word in Irish is "variously written Sia bhrugh, Sithbhrog, Sithbhrogh,
Sioghbhrogh, Sioghbhrugh, &c."
2. How to pronounce "Géanna fiáine" correctly?
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 1437
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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Síofróg is [ˈʃiːɸɾagˠ] (shee-fragg). Trill the r as in Scottish.
Géanna fiáine is [ˈɟeːn̪ˠə ɸ´iaːɲɪ] (gyay-nuh fee-ah-nyih). The g- is soft, as in "give".
Of course the english-like retranscriptions i used between brackets are approximative.
Tír Chonaill abú!
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