Hi everyone! My name is Dana and I am currently beginning my major work for my Higher School Certificate in an Australian High School. I want to do a reworking of the folk tale of Aengus and Caer Ibormeith, and I was wondering if somebody could offer their language services! I am finding it difficult to pronounce alot of the names involved, and it would be great if anybody could help me. Ive been told the followning:
Dagda is actually "Dah da"
but I still have no idea how to pronounce "Caer Ibormeith"
Thanks!
Dana

Looks like Old/Middle Irish. Would not know what the point would be to pronounce it just like ti was then.

Maybe a more modern version?

I'd say this:

Dagda [ˈd̪aɣðə]
Caer Ibormeith [kɛɾ ˈiβəɾβʲɛθʲ]

But wait for Dennis' opinion, he's a specialist of Old Irish...

Mar a dúirt mé cheana, a Lughaidh, níl IPA agam ar mo ríomhaire. Mac atá agam, dála an scéil. Ar mhiste leat súil a chaitheamh ar an suíomh seo agus a rá liom cén ceann atá uaim?

http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/ipa-fonts.html

Mac atá agam fosta agus chan oibríonn na fontais údaí go rómhinic. Bheadh sé maith fáil amach cad é mar a dhéantar iad.

Hi Dana,

The historical Old Irish pronunciation of Dagda (which seems to be a compound meaning "good-god") is DAGH-the, where "the" is pronounced just like English "the" (not the stressed version that sounds like "thee" however), and DAGH sounds like "dah" ending with a rough g, as in Modern Greek, or like the 'g' in Spanish "agosto". If you can't manage that, just say DOG-the ("the dog" in reverse order).

Caer (which can mean "berry") sounds historically like "fire" but with an initial 'k' and a lightly rolled 'r'. Ibormeith is a bit of a problem. It's another compound. The first element (which means "yew") was pronounced "IH-vuhr", like "giver" without the 'g' and with a fully pronounced, slightly rolled 'r'. The second element is the problem, but was probably pronounced rather like "meth" (the drug). (Other possibilities would be roughly "mayth" or "veth" or "vayth".