{"id":71,"date":"2009-09-01T00:43:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-11-28T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T15:36:05","slug":"an-sloinne-o-cinneide-kennedy-ciall-an-tsloinne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/an-sloinne-o-cinneide-kennedy-ciall-an-tsloinne\/","title":{"rendered":"An Sloinne ‘\u00d3 Cinn\u00e9ide’ (Kennedy): Ciall an tSloinne"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le\u00a0R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Having delved a bit into some of the extended Kennedy family lineage, I thought it might be suimi\u00fail<\/strong> to look into the sloinne<\/strong> itself, especially since its meaning seems to belie the family\u2019s classic dath\u00falacht<\/strong> (good looks).\u00a0 <\/span>How\u2019s that for a mid-blog cliffhanger?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As you may already know, the \u00d3<\/strong> part of the name means \u201cgrandson\u201d or \u201cdescendant,\u201d although it is not the everyday word for \u201cgrandson,\u201d which was, you remember from previous blogs (right?), a compound of \u201cgar<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cmac<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ll leave you to combine those two words in the correct order and\u00a0do any necessary mionchoigeart\u00fa<\/strong> (fine-tuning).\u00a0 You can see the answer below.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So back to \u201cCinn\u00e9ide<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s often translated as \u201cugly head.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, we have \u201ccinn<\/strong>,\u201d which is a form of \u201cceann<\/strong>\u201d (head).\u00a0 <\/span>Although \u201ccinn<\/strong>\u201d can be the plural or possessive, here the vowels have probably changed to \u201cslender\u201d (i) since \u201chead\u201d is being added to the element \u201c\u00e9ide<\/strong>,\u201d which begins with a slender vowel (e).\u00a0 <\/span>Remember that \u201ce\u201d and \u201ci\u201d are the two slender vowels (guta\u00ed caola)<\/strong> and can be paired together on either side of a consonant.\u00a0 <\/span>Do you remember the guta\u00ed leathana<\/strong>?\u00a0 <\/span>If not, see below, although there are really only three left to choose from in Irish!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As for \u201cugly,\u201d and I do hope that none of this is taken too personally, the ordinary word for \u201cugly\u201d in Irish is NOT \u201c\u00e9ide<\/strong>\u201d or any variation thereof.\u00a0 <\/span>Fortunately!\u00a0 <\/span>The most common\u00a0 <\/span>word is \u201cgr\u00e1nna<\/strong>\u201d and, of course, the Irish can wax poetic with comhchiallaigh<\/strong> such as \u201cm\u00edofar<\/strong>\u201d (ugly, ill-favored), neimhdheas<\/strong> (ugly, unbeautiful, and, if I do say so myself, on the obscure\/archaic side), and do-mhaiseach<\/strong> (ugly, unsightly, unseemly).\u00a0 <\/span>Now we enter what I consider the ambiguous realm of surname meanings, and the \u201c\u00e9ide<\/strong>\u201d part can either be interpreted as \u201chelmed\u201d [i.e. helmeted] related to \u201c\u00e9ide<\/strong>\u201d (uniform, widely used in military terminology) or \u201c\u00e9idigh<\/strong>\u201d (unseemly).\u00a0 So, for the ciall<\/strong>, \u201cgrandson of the person whose head is \u2018uniformed,\u2019 \u2018helmed,\u2019 \u2018armored,\u2019 or just plain \u2018ugly\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>But, n\u00e1 maraigh an teachtaire, le do thoil<\/strong>, just elucidating.\u00a0 Slan go f<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00f3ill —\u00a0R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/p>\n

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Freagra\u00ed: garmhac <\/span><\/strong>[gahr-wahk] grandson.\u00a0 <\/span>Guta\u00ed leathana<\/strong>: a, o, u<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(le\u00a0R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Having delved a bit into some of the extended Kennedy family lineage, I thought it might be suimi\u00fail to look into the sloinne itself, especially since its meaning seems to belie the family\u2019s classic dath\u00falacht (good looks).\u00a0 How\u2019s that for a mid-blog cliffhanger? \u00a0 As you may already know, the \u00d3 part of the…<\/p>\n

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