{"id":6794,"date":"2015-06-08T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:19:59","slug":"what-else-comes-in-ribi-besides-gruaig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/what-else-comes-in-ribi-besides-gruaig\/","title":{"rendered":"What else comes in ‘rib\u00ed’ besides ‘gruaig’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"What<\/a>

What does this picture have in common with the one below? (close-up of photo by Wen-Yan King (NGO [http:\/\/www.medapt.org medapt)] (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p><\/div>‘<\/p>\n

‘In the last blagmh\u00edr<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>, we saw a picture of an eachtardhomhandach<\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>without so much as a ‘ribe gruaige<\/strong>‘ <\/strong><\/strong>on his head.
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Ribe gruaige<\/strong>‘ means “a strand of hair.”\u00a0 “Gruaig<\/strong>” changes to “gruaige<\/strong>” because we’re saying “of hair.”\u00a0 For the pronunciation of “ribe<\/strong>,” see the tip below. \u00a0The plural, as you probably figured out from teideal na blagmh\u00edre seo<\/strong>, is “rib\u00ed<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Here are a few more ways the word “ribe<\/strong>” can be used.\u00a0 In each case, I’ve left a blank to fill in for the translation.\u00a0 There are at least five ways that “ribe<\/strong>” can be translated; freagra\u00ed th\u00edos<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

ribe f\u00e9as\u00f3ige<\/strong>: a ___________ of a beard<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 rib\u00ed ar an madra<\/strong>: There are (raised) _____________ on the dog.<\/p>\n

ribe f\u00e9ir<\/strong>: a ________________ of grass<\/p>\n

ribe l\u00edn<\/strong>: a __________________ of flax<\/p>\n

ribe bolg\u00e1n solais<\/strong>: a ___________ of a light bulb (probably mostly superseded now by ________)<\/p>\n

And one more, back to our basic translation:<\/p>\n

ribe spaigit\u00ed<\/strong>: a ________________ of spaghetti<\/p>\n

Getting back to “hair,” there are more ways to refer to a strand of hair in Irish, including the following: dlaoi, dla\u00ed\u00f3g, gibne<\/strong>, and tointe<\/strong> (NB: no s\u00edneadh fada<\/strong> for that last one, nothing to do with “t\u00f3ineanna<\/strong>“!).\u00a0 But looking further into those will have to wait for some future day.<\/p>\n

BTW, If you see “ribe<\/strong>” translated simply as “strand,” remember this is “strand” as in the examples above, not as a “beach.”\u00a0 In the UK and Ireland, a “beach” is often called a “strand,” and in Ireland a sign for “An Tr\u00e1<\/strong>” may be pointing you to “The Strand.”\u00a0 So “tr\u00e1<\/strong>” is “beach” or “strand,” and a nice parallel to the Welsh “traeth<\/em>.”\u00a0 Even the “Strand” in London reflects the same linguistic history, originally referring to the banks of the River Thames.<\/p>\n

Sin \u00e9 don mh\u00edr seo.\u00a0 SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>

What does this picture have in common with the one above? Both can be described as consisting of rib\u00ed in Irish. (http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/view-image.php?image=47147&picture=spaghetti-on-plate, cropped for this post)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Fuaimni\u00fa<\/strong> (pronunciation): For “ribe<\/strong>,” just remember that it’s Irish, not English, so it doesn’t sound at all like the English words “vibe” or “bribe.”\u00a0 The final “e” of “ribe<\/strong>” is pronounced, albeit sort of minimally, almost like “uh.” The emphasis is on the first syllable, not on the final “e.”<\/p>\n

The vowel in the middle is a short “i,” so it’s like the Irish “tirim<\/strong>” or the English “rib,” although the meaning is completely different.<\/p>\n

Also remember that although this word is spelled with “r” followed by “i,” it’s not a “slender r” (tirim, M\u00e1ire, bre\u00e1, Muire, srl<\/strong>.).\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 “R” in the initial position is pronounced broad in Irish, not slender, even if followed by a “slender vowel.”\u00a0 This also applies to many other words in Irish, such as:<\/p>\n

r\u00ed<\/strong>, king, r\u00edthe<\/strong>, kings; r\u00ed<\/strong>, forearm, ritheacha<\/strong>, forearms; ridire<\/strong>, a knight; riail<\/strong>, rule, riail sleamhn\u00e1in<\/strong>, slide-rule (if anyone talks about those anymore!), and probably hundreds more<\/p>\n

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

ribe f\u00e9as\u00f3ige<\/strong>: a bristle of a beard<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 rib\u00ed ar an madra<\/strong>: There are (raised) hackles on the dog.\u00a0 There are more ways to refer to “hackles” on dogs or people, but they’ll have to wait for another post.<\/p>\n

ribe f\u00e9ir<\/strong>: a blade of grass<\/p>\n

ribe l\u00edn<\/strong>: a shred of flax<\/p>\n

ribe bolg\u00e1n solais<\/strong>: a filament of a light bulb (probably mostly superseded now by filim\u00e9ad<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

ribe spaigit\u00ed<\/strong>: a strand of spaghetti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) ‘ ‘In the last blagmh\u00edr, we saw a picture of an eachtardhomhandach without so much as a ‘ribe gruaige‘ on his head. “Ribe gruaige‘ means “a strand of hair.”\u00a0 “Gruaig” changes to “gruaige” because we’re saying “of hair.”\u00a0 For the pronunciation of “ribe,” see the tip below. \u00a0The plural, as you probably figured…<\/p>\n

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