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SamanthaR (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 02:54 pm: |
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Could someone please tell me the correct pronunciation of the name Duibheasa? I have searched around and found variances like: Duh-vee-sah Di-vay-sah Duh-veesa Also, is there a common nickname for Duibheasa? It's for a book I am writing. Duinheasa is a young girl who was born in Foxford (Bellasea). I'd appreciate the help! Go raibh maith agat! Samantha |
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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Member Username: Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
Post Number: 803 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 - 10:43 am: |
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All those alternative look wrong to me, since there is no accent over the e. I'm not sure what the usual pronunciation would be in Mayo. As someone who learned Munster rules of pronunciation, I would be tempted to say "DWEE-suh", but I suspect this is a local peculiarity. |
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Aonghus
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9553 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 - 10:47 am: |
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It isn't a common name! I've never heard of it, and it is not listed in Irish Names for Children by Patrick Woulfe. It is listed in Ó Corráin and Maguire Irish Names - as popular in the 13th and 14th century. Foxford is Béal Easa (mouth of the waterfall) in Irish, see here http://www.logainm.ie/?text=foxford&placeID=34685 Someone else will hopefully weigh in with a (Mayo) pronunciation [for a variety of reasons, I don't do pronunciation] If not, the speech synthesiser at http://www.abair.ie might help you. |
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Lughaidh
Member Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3346 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 - 11:54 am: |
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"DIV-uh-suh" in Donegal, I think. Learn Irish pronunciation here: http://loig.cheveau.ifrance.com/irish/irishsounds/irishsounds.html & http://fsii.gaeilge.org/
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SamanthaR (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Friday, January 15, 2010 - 03:17 pm: |
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Thanks for all the responses so far!! Yes, I wanted a rarer name because she was born in Foxford, Mayo in the late 1700s. Aonghus - I used the speech synthesiser... so cool! It came out "duh-vee-sah," the way I originally assumed it was pronounced. Thanks again! |
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Curiousfinn
Member Username: Curiousfinn
Post Number: 358 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 02:40 am: |
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There's a Sanskrit word written "divasa" that has entered even Finnish as the word "taivas", for sky/Heaven (through "deivas" for "day" in a language I can't recall now) - or so I have read sometime in the past. Not sure about the pronunciation rule there, if it's anything close to "duibheasa". I this was true it would make for a great girl's name. "Herra Harakka" and the other linguists may have better information. Tine, siúil liom!
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Breandán
Member Username: Breandán
Post Number: 362 Registered: 12-2008
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 05:14 am: |
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Interestingly, the speech synthesiser at abair.ie comes up with the pronunciation duh-vee-sah but the phonemiciser (Fóinéimiú) at the same site produces the pronunciation Lughaidh gives above. I would have expected: D(w)iv-ASS-uh or D(W)IV-uh-suh. Domhnaillín's pronunciation DWEE-suh also makes sense. |
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Aonghus
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9557 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 10:01 am: |
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"Du[i]bh" varies a lot in pronunciation. The name is unlikely to have been in the corpus - to say the least - so it will have been an approximation by the speech synthesiser. As far as I know the two projects are slightly in parallel rather than interlocking, and both works in progress. |
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Seánw
Member Username: Seánw
Post Number: 392 Registered: 07-2009
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 12:01 pm: |
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quote:There's a Sanskrit word written "divasa" that has entered even Finnish as the word "taivas", for sky/Heaven ... That root means bright, or shiny. Duibheasa means "dark beauty" as far as I can tell. I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.
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Aonghus
Member Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 9562 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 12:27 pm: |
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Dark one [lady] of the waterfall |
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