{"id":6506,"date":"2015-03-21T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-06-24T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:13:05","slug":"ag-seinm-uirlisi-ceoil-o-alpchorn-go-xileafon-alpenhorn-to-xylophone-in-irish-pt-2-ideafon-go-hocairin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/ag-seinm-uirlisi-ceoil-o-alpchorn-go-xileafon-alpenhorn-to-xylophone-in-irish-pt-2-ideafon-go-hocairin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag seinm uirlis\u00ed ceoil, \u00f3 alpchorn go xileaf\u00f3n (Alpenhorn to Xylophone in Irish, Pt.2): ideaf\u00f3n go \u00a0h\u00f3cair\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"C\u00e9n<\/a>

C\u00e9n uirlis cheoil at\u00e1 \u00e1 d\u00e9anamh sa phicti\u00far seo? Ar sheinn t\u00fa riamh an uirlis cheoil seo? (fearann poibli: http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Giuseppe_Donati_and_one_of_his_ocarinas.gif, Aaron Walden a d’uasl\u00f3d\u00e1il)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the last blog we looked at musical instruments from “a” (alpenhorn) to “h” (heckelphone) as part of a series on naming instruments AND saying someone is playing them.\u00a0 And yes, we did a couple more widely played instruments, like “an consairt\u00edn<\/strong>” and “na druma\u00ed<\/strong>,” not just some of the less usual ones.<\/p>\n

Why the big “AND”?\u00a0 Remember, Irish has different ending and changes that occur when you say “I’m playing the guitar” (T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an ghiot\u00e1ir<\/strong>) as opposed to “Here’s the guitar” (Seo \u00e9 an giot\u00e1r<\/strong>).\u00a0 When spelled “ghiot\u00e1ir<\/strong>,” the word is pronounced “yit-AWRzh” and when it’s in its root form, it’s, predictably, “git-AWR.” In more technical terms, “giot\u00e1r<\/strong>” changes to the genitive-case form when you’re saying someone is “at the guitar’s playing,” to give it a literal translation.<\/p>\n

So for today’s blog we’ll continue in sequence, starting with idiophones and ending with the ocarina.\u00a0 As before, I’ll fill in every other line for the genitive forms, and leave blanks for you to fill in for the others.<\/p>\n

(1-8 sa bhlag ar 19 M\u00e1rta 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n

9) ideaf\u00f3n: T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an ideaf\u00f3in<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’m playing the idiophone.\u00a0 OK, it’s not your everyday statement, and would probably come up mostly if you were contrasting the categories of instruments being played in an ensemble, like na gaothuirlis\u00ed adhmaid, na t\u00e9aduirlis\u00ed, na cnaguirlis\u00ed agus na huirlis\u00ed pr\u00e1is<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Can you think of some idiophones?\u00a0 Seo c\u00fapla cine\u00e1l a bhuailtear (ideaf\u00f3in bhuailte): triant\u00e1n, cloganna.\u00a0 Agus c\u00fapla cine\u00e1l a stoitear (ideaf\u00f3in stoite): trumpa b\u00e9il, dan moi (uirlis V\u00edtneamach, focal ar fhocal: “li\u00fait liopa”). \u00a0Cine\u00e1l amh\u00e1in a sh\u00e9idtear: <\/strong>aeolsklavier<\/em> (n\u00edl Gaeilge air, s\u00edlim) agus n\u00ed fheicim ceann ar bith eile.\u00a0 \u00a0Agus c\u00fapla ceann a sheinntear le frithchuimilt: arm\u00f3nach gloine, caschl\u00e1r.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And by the way, note the spelling in English: i-d-i-o-phone (idio- own, peculiar, proper to one + -phone, i.e. for music, naturally sonorous) and in Irish i-d-e-a-f\u00f3n<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you Google the term, you might get led down the garden path, like I was briefly, by lots of hits for Lenovo’s “IdeaPhones,” a type of smartphone.\u00a0 The Irish “idea-<\/strong>” prefix is a gaelicization of “idio-,” also found in a handful of other words, like “ideapatach<\/strong>” (fibrili\u00fa ideapatach m\u00e9adail\u00edneach<\/strong>) and “ideamorfach<\/strong>” (criostal ideamorfach<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

OK, back to the list.\u00a0 I didn’t really plan for one entry to dominate the list, but the tricky thing is that there aren’t many instruments beginning with “i” in Irish, so I went with the group term “idiophone” instead.<\/p>\n

And now, your turn, noting that there are no typical instruments starting with “j” in Irish.\u00a0 The letter “j” is pretty rare in Irish, mostly limited to loan words like “jib<\/strong>,” “j\u00edp<\/strong>,” and “j\u00fad\u00f3<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The letter “k” is even less typical in Irish, mostly reserved for the abbreviation “km<\/strong>” (the abbreviation for “cilim\u00e9adar<\/strong>” — using “cm<\/strong>” would be confused with “ceintim\u00e9adar<\/strong>“).<\/p>\n

Sure, we could say, “T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an janggo” (uirlis Ch\u00f3ir\u00e9ach)<\/strong> or “T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an kakko” (uirlis Sheap\u00e1nach)<\/strong>, but that wouldn’t really give us much Irish practice.\u00a0 So, moving right along …<\/p>\n

10) \u00a0li\u00fait: T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm na ___________<\/strong> (NB: inscne — baininscneach<\/strong>, so no lenition but what happens to the end of the word?)<\/p>\n

Mo shealsa<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"M\u00f3rorg\u00e1n<\/a>

M\u00f3rorg\u00e1n Wanamaker i bhFilideilfia (Nikita52389 at en.wikipedia [CC BY 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>11) m\u00f3rorg\u00e1n<\/strong>: T\u00e1 Peter Richard Conte ag seinm an mh\u00f3rorg\u00e1in sa Grand Court (“an t-org\u00e1n Wanamaker” sa siopa ilrannach Macy’s i bhFilideilfia; ba \u00e9 Wanamaker’s an t-ainm a bh\u00ed ar an siopa go dt\u00ed 1995\/2012 (<\/strong>“Hecht’s” agus ansin <\/strong>“Macy’s”).\u00a0 Fad m’eolais, is \u00e9 an t-org\u00e1n is m\u00f3 ar domhan \u00e9 de r\u00e9ir ranganna (<\/strong>“ranks”) agus de r\u00e9ir me\u00e1chain (287 tona).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do sheal anois<\/strong><\/p>\n

12) n\u00f3vachorda<\/strong>: T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an<\/strong> ______.\u00a0 (NB: 4th-declension noun, starting with “n,” so is there really any change?\u00a0 Do bhar\u00fail<\/strong>?)<\/p>\n

13) \u00f3cair\u00edn<\/strong>: An maith leat a bheith ag seinm an \u00f3cair\u00edn<\/strong>?\u00a0 (NB: also 4th-declension, starting with a vowel, so, creid n\u00f3 n\u00e1 creid \u00e9, n\u00edl athr\u00fa ar bith ann<\/strong>; in other words, the word stays as “\u00f3cair\u00edn<\/strong>“). \u00a0D\u00e1la an sc\u00e9il, sin an uirlis at\u00e1 sa phicti\u00far ag barr an bhlag seo. \u00a0Tuilleadh eolais faoin bhfear ag<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Donati.<\/p>\n

Bhuel,<\/strong> that’s another five instruments (c\u00faig uirlis<\/strong>), seven (seacht gcinn<\/strong>) if you count the “j” and “k” ones.\u00a0 And relatively few changes this time around.\u00a0 Bh\u00ed an t-\u00e1dh orainn, nach raibh?<\/strong>\u00a0 SGF – R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freagra\u00ed<\/strong><\/p>\n

10) li\u00fait: T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm na li\u00faite.<\/strong>\u00a0 The word “li\u00fait<\/strong>” is feminine, and second-declension, so it gets “-e” added here.\u00a0 No change in spelling to the initial “l.”<\/p>\n

12) T\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag seinm an n\u00f3vachorda.<\/strong>\u00a0 No changes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) In the last blog we looked at musical instruments from “a” (alpenhorn) to “h” (heckelphone) as part of a series on naming instruments AND saying someone is playing them.\u00a0 And yes, we did a couple more widely played instruments, like “an consairt\u00edn” and “na druma\u00ed,” not just some of the less usual ones…<\/p>\n

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