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Thread #46976   Message #700598
Posted By: MartinRyan
29-Apr-02 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: Bodhran history???
Subject: RE: Help: Bodhran history???
Dineen definitely relates it to "bodhar" (deaf) - even to citing "bodharán" as an alternative spelling. He gives the meanings as:

a deaf person; a person of indifferent hearing; an indistinct speaker; also a shallow skin-bottomed vessel, a dildurn, a drum; bodhrán mór, a big drum.

Regards

p.s. nice word, that dildurn !!