{"id":9069,"date":"2017-03-23T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2017-04-10T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:11:23","slug":"bia-le-beoir-aguisin-one-more-irish-phrase-for-a-beer-friendly-snack-food-cuid-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/bia-le-beoir-aguisin-one-more-irish-phrase-for-a-beer-friendly-snack-food-cuid-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bia le Beoir (Aguis\u00edn): One More Irish Phrase for a Beer-friendly Snack Food, Cuid \/ Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Well, it may not have quite the linguistic sizzle as the phrase “pork scratchings” (US equivalent “cracklins” or “cracklings”), aka “fried pork rinds,” but here’s the Irish for the bia sneaice<\/strong> in the picture above, quite\u00a0straightforwardly: craiceann muiceola friochta<\/strong> (skin + of pork + fried). [Agus seo aguis\u00edn don aguis\u00edn seo<\/strong>: no sooner had I thought I had put this topic to rest, than I noticed one more way to say “crackling” in Irish: craiceann briosc<\/strong>, but I really do prefer the first phrase. \u00a0“Craiceann briosc<\/strong>” sounds like “crunchy skin” to me, and that sounds a bit fee-fi-fo-fummish!]<\/p>\n

My husband mentioned “pork rinds” as a beer snack food that I had left out of the previous blogpost (nasc th\u00edos<\/strong>), so I figured I should check out the Irish for that.\u00a0 To tell you the truth, I’d never really thought about the Irish for pork scratchings or cracklings before this, but there’s always a first time.\u00a0 If nothing else, we’ll come away from today’s post with a bit more practice with muiceoil\/muiceola<\/strong> under our ever-loosening belts, and in part two of this blogpost, we’ll also get some practice with caoireoil<\/strong>,\u00a0circeoil, mairteoil, laofheoil<\/strong>, uaineoil<\/strong>, and fiafheoil\/oiseoil<\/strong>.\u00a0 All of which is as much as to say, we’ll be practicing the <hush-hush tone> genitive case of some third-declension nouns.<\/p>\n

So let’s go back to our original phrase (craiceann muiceola friochta<\/strong>) and look at how the genitive case of muiceoil<\/strong> is formed. \u00a0First, though, let’s look briefly at “rind” vs. “skin.”\u00a0 Then we’ll work our way through the “feolta<\/strong>,” with “muiceoil<\/strong>” in this post and the others to follow.<\/p>\n

I double-checked “rind” in all the contexts I could think of and kept coming up with “craiceann<\/strong>,” usually translated as “skin.”\u00a0 So I think the bottom line for Irish is that “craiceann<\/strong>” is the best translation for “rind,” even though “rind” to me has a more specific feel than the word “skin.”\u00a0 Oh, I can feel my epidermis quivering at the thought of being called “rind”!\u00a0 Be that as it may, we have orange and lemon rind or peel (craiceann or\u00e1iste, craiceann l\u00edom\u00f3ide<\/strong> – note that genitive case for “lemon”). Lemon and orange zest also use “craiceann<\/strong>,” although to me that’s a little ambiguous because, in my experience, “zest” is specifically the inner layer of the skin of the orange or lemon.<\/p>\n

Where else do we use the word “rind” in English?\u00a0 Which leads us to the question of what the Irish would be for whatever we discover.<\/p>\n

Well, the one other thing that comes to mind is pickled watermelon rind.\u00a0 Creid n\u00f3 n\u00e1 creid \u00e9<\/strong>, I don’t find an entry for “pickled watermelon rind” in any of my Irish dictionaries, but I’ll give it a whirl: craiceann mealbhac\u00e1n uisce picilte<\/strong> (skin + of melon + of water + pickled), with no spelling change for “mealbhac\u00e1n<\/strong>“.\u00a0 If it were just “pickled melon<\/em> rind” we would see the genitive case in action (craiceann mealbhac\u00e1in picilte<\/strong>), with the “-i-” added.\u00a0 But the general trend in Modern Irish is to not<\/em> shift to the genitive with indefinite noun phrases that include an adjective (e.g. dorn fear m\u00f3r<\/strong>, a big man’s fist, as opposed to the “definite” phrase: dorn an fhir mh\u00f3ir<\/strong>, the fist of the big man) and “uisce<\/strong>” is being used as an adjective here. \u00a0There are plenty of exceptions to this, if we go back through 20th- and 19th-century Irish, but this appears to be the general trend.<\/p>\n

As for the “pickled” aspect of the watermelon rinds, apparently one can also say “seal-leasaithe faoi sh\u00e1ile<\/strong>” (provisionally preserved in brine), but given my druthers, I’d go for “picilte<\/strong>,” which seems more direct.<\/p>\n

There is a related word, “crotal<\/strong>” (husk, hull, case, or sometimes rind), and I’m mulling over what the official distinction is between “craiceann<\/strong>” as “rind” and “crotal<\/strong>” as “rind.”\u00a0 I suppose a rind (craiceann<\/strong>) is to some extent chewable, even if we don’t usually eat it, such as orange rinds or watermelon rinds (inedible unless pickled, or “provisionally preserved in brine”).\u00a0 Husks and hulls on the other hand, would be completely inedible, I would think, like corn husks.\u00a0 Well, I suppose we could chew them, but the thought is completely unappealing.\u00a0 “Crotal<\/strong>” is also used for “nutshell” and in that sense would also be completely inedible (crotal cn\u00f3<\/strong>, a nutshell).\u00a0 This could also lead us down another garden path (or nut-grove path!), to also discuss “blaosc cn\u00f3<\/strong>” and “cn\u00f3shliog\u00e1n<\/strong>” as “nutshell,” but that’ll have to wait for another day.<\/p>\n

By the way, just a gentle reminder that “crotal<\/strong>” is pronounced with the Irish short “o” sound, as in “pota<\/strong>” or “mogall<\/strong>” (another word for “husk” or “shell,” btw), not a long “o.”\u00a0 Some online word searching reminded me of maybe why I should make that reasonably obvious point.<\/p>\n

And one last point about rinds before we move on to muiceoil<\/strong> itself.\u00a0 To my amazement, \u00a0Irish also has a word for “pork rind powder”! \u00a0Actually, to be fair, before working on this post, I didn’t even realize there was such a thing as pork rind powder.\u00a0 C\u00e9n d\u00f3igh a n-\u00fas\u00e1ideann t\u00fa \u00e9 — an bhfuil a fhios ag \u00e9inne anseo<\/strong>?\u00a0 As a vocabulary term, it’s straightforward enough (p\u00fadar craicinn muiceola<\/strong>).\u00a0 That’s a lovely example of two genitive cases in a row (!) — powder of skin of pork.\u00a0 How have I lived my life to this point without needing the phrase in English or Irish, let alone the p\u00fadar \u00e9 f\u00e9in.? Diabhal a fhios agam!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s at least a dent in the skin\/rind\/peel\/husk vocabulary.\u00a0 Now on to “muiceoil<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

If you hadn’t previously realized it, you’ve probably noticed by now that the “-eoil” ending of “muiceoil<\/strong>” is actually from “feoil<\/strong>” (meat).\u00a0 In Modern Irish, the spelling has been streamlined (for better or for worse) so we no longer see the silent “fh.”\u00a0 Remember, the second part of a compound word is usually lenited in Irish, so the “f” has changed to “fh.”\u00a0\u00a0 So “muicfheoil<\/strong>” has become “muiceoil<\/strong>,” literally, and perhaps a little distressingly, “pig meat.”\u00a0 Oh, how the words of the late Judy B. Goodenough’s song “Tails and Trotters” echo in my mind, as the mother pig laments “All my sons and all my daughters, are hocks and hams, and tails and trotters.”\u00a0 Enough to turn me into a veigeat\u00f3rach<\/strong> (aka feoils\u00e9ant\u00f3ir<\/strong>). \u00a0By the way, what a great surname she had, “Goodenough,” so she’d be “Maithgoleor<\/strong>” in Irish!<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are the forms of the word “muiceoil<\/strong>“; this word is generally considered not to have a plural, although “feoil<\/strong>” itself does:<\/p>\n

an mhuiceoil<\/strong>, the pork<\/p>\n

muiceola<\/strong>, of pork<\/p>\n

na muiceola<\/strong>, of the pork<\/p>\n

That’ll be a wrap for today, and soon we’ll be back with more feolta<\/strong>.\u00a0 I hope this post has been both fun and informative.\u00a0 SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nasc<\/strong>:\u00a0Bia le Beoir: Some Irish Words for Good Snack Foods to Eat with Beer<\/a>\u00a0Posted by r\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/a> on Mar 20, 2017 in Irish Language<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

PS: If anyone wants to read more about Judy B(each) Goodenough (1942-1990), you might want to start with this brief obituary, referring to her songs (recorded by Irish musicians such as Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy) and to her over 700 poems: http:\/\/hr1964.org\/obits.htm#Beach.\u00a0 The full text of “Tails and Trotters” is at http:\/\/www.traditionalmusic.co.uk\/folk-song-lyrics\/Tails_and_Trotters.htm.<\/p>\n

PPS: And if you’re trying to decide whether eating fried pork rinds will totally undermine your diet, you might try reading this: http:\/\/www.expertrain.com\/blog\/health\/healthy-pork-scratchings.htm<\/p>\n

And if you want a non-pork alternative, but with the same brisce<\/strong> (crispness) and cnagarnach<\/strong> (cracking sound), you might like to read this article, for whose title I can only say, I had nothing to do with it, \u00a0http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/goingout\/restaurants\/introducing-new-pub-munchie-the-cock-scratching-9120670.html<\/p>\n

Of course, if we’re really going to start talking about fried chicken skins, we should go back to the traditional Yiddish recipe for “gribenes<\/em>,” but that’s \u00e1bhar blag eile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) Well, it may not have quite the linguistic sizzle as the phrase “pork scratchings” (US equivalent “cracklins” or “cracklings”), aka “fried pork rinds,” but here’s the Irish for the bia sneaice in the picture above, quite\u00a0straightforwardly: craiceann muiceola friochta (skin + of pork + fried). [Agus seo aguis\u00edn don aguis\u00edn seo: no sooner…<\/p>\n

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