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 Post subject: Re: Dia duit everybody
PostPosted: Wed 04 Sep 2013 7:53 pm 
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Redwolf, I appreciate the thought. I love linguistic luxury like alliterations.

Breandán, thanks for summarising and explaining.

Bruach na Binne therefore seems the contender. May I check the following with you learned folk: Would a Connacht speaker use this meaning of Binne? And I'm ok with the pronunciation of Bruach, but how is Binne pronounced?

Gratefully,

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frido wrote:
Redwolf, I appreciate the thought. I love linguistic luxury like alliterations.

Breandán, thanks for summarising and explaining.

Bruach na Binne therefore seems the contender. May I check the following with you learned folk: Would a Connacht speaker use this meaning of Binne? And I'm ok with the pronunciation of Bruach, but how is Binne pronounced?

Gratefully,

Frido


Bin-yuh


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 Post subject: Re: Dia duit everybody
PostPosted: Wed 04 Sep 2013 9:32 pm 
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frido wrote:
Thank you Gumbi, thank you Cian! The house is near the top of the cliff, so would you say ag an aill is plain wrong? It sounds nice to my ears, as a name for a house…

Yay! míle!

Frido



You might consider another possibility:

Barr na hAille

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frido wrote:
And I'm ok with the pronunciation of Bruach, but how is Binne pronounced?

binne /b´iN´ə/ BIN-yih

In Connemara, binn is usually "gable", although it can mean "peak", "ben", or "pin" in place names.

Barr na hAille "Top of the Cliff" /bɑ:r Nə hæ:L´ə/ BAWR nuh HAEL-yih

or

Bruach na hAille "Edge of the Cliff" /bru:əx Nə hæ:L´ə/ BROO-ukh nuh HAEL-yih

might be less ambiguous.

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 Post subject: Re: Dia duit everybody
PostPosted: Thu 05 Sep 2013 9:01 am 
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Thanks, Braoin and Patrick. Breandàn, sounds like you don't think binn would be understood properly.

… processing … :dhera:

Bruach na hAille and Barr na hAille unfortunately seem to be more popular house names, quoth Google.

The house is on the bog, halfway between the top of a cliff and a little river valley, which ends in the sea in a waterfall. Only the cliff and the sea are directly visible. An ancient settlement is nearby.

Between cliff's edge and valley?
Ancient Sea View?
…?

Alliterations preferred. ;)

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