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Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
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Username: Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
Post Number: 521
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 06:35 pm: |   
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Pronunciation question for you, regarding the first syllable of: fadhbanna.
Is this a standard short a or closer to an "ay" sound, à la "fay-buh-nuh"? Thanks. |
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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
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Username: Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Post Number: 182
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 06:55 pm: |
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Neither, at least in West Muskerry. There it's the sound between "eye" and "oy" that you hear in some Irish English varieties where Standard English has "eye". (In IPA terms, [əɪ].) |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2491
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 10:38 pm: |
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I always heard "FIBE-uh-nuh", with an I-sound. At least I never heard an "ay"-sound there (although you'd have it in Ulster in similar words, like "laghad", or "Tadhg". I wonder why it seems like Ulster people pronounce "FIBE").
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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Sieirál
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Username: Sieirál
Post Number: 64
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 10:40 am: |
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I would say that the "adh" would yield a sound that smushes "ah" and "ee" together. That equals a "eye" sound. |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 2493
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 12:15 pm: |
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Is it not what I said? :-)
Learn Irish pronunciation here: www.phouka.com/gaelic/sounds/sounds.htm & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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