Tag Archives: Xylophone
Some Irish Words Starting with the Letter ‘X’ (Part 2 of 2): xileafón agus xifisteirneam Posted by róislín on Sep 18, 2015
(le Róislín) As you might recall, the most recent blagmhír here was “Some Irish Words Starting with the Letter ‘X’ (Part 1 of 2)” (nasc thíos). Today we’ll look at Part 2, Irish words beginning with “x” where the single letter “x” isn’t a prefix. In other words, this is not the post dealing with words…
Some Irish Words Starting with the Letter ‘X’ (Part 1 of 2) Posted by róislín on Sep 14, 2015
(le Róislín) As you might suspect, there are relatively few words in Irish that start with the letter ‘x,’ since it wasn’t part of the traditional original Irish alphabet (which was a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, and u). We’ve seen something similar for…
Ag seinm uirlisí ceoil, ó alpchorn go xileafón (Alpenhorn to Xylophone in Irish): Pt. 4: Triantán go xileafón Posted by róislín on Mar 29, 2015
(le Róislín) Time for an chuid dheireanach of our musical instrument series. And this time, it does end. The last specific entry is with “x,” not “z.” Remember why — from the previous blogs sa tsraith seo? But, nevertheless, there are a few comments here about some instruments whose names start with letters, like “y”…