Feadog - meaning

Subject: Feadog - meaning
From: Vin2
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 07:27 AM

I have a 'Feadog' irish whistle but have been trying to find out what the word 'Feadog' means. Is it irish for whistle? Any ideas folks....

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 07:49 AM

Feadóg = fife, flute, whistle or plover (bird)
A Feadóg stáin is a tin whistle.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 09:07 AM

Around these parts anyway I hear it pronounced fya-DOG, with a long O so it rhymes with "vogue" and "brogue".

Jim - am I right in thinking that "stáin" would rhyme with "Táin" and other similarly-spelled words, i.e. be pronounced as stoyne?

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 01:06 PM

As far as I know Bonnie (as a non-Irish speaker).
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST,Maurice
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 01:45 PM

The Feadog part means whistle, stain means tin. (Mostly they're not made of tin anymore but the name sticks).Hard to get the pronounciation into English, fadh-OGUE (with a hard G)( as vogue or brogue, as you say. The "fadh" rhymes with bad, more or less. STAW-in, staw rhymes with straw. The feadog brand are decent whistles for the price. And a "feadog mor" (pronounced moor) (mor means big) is a flute. "feadog isheal" (EE-shall) is a low whistle, an octave down from the usual.

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: MartinRyan
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 03:43 PM

"Feadóg" also means "plover" - which is a cause of confusion in some Irish placenames e.g. Dog's Bay, in Connemara!

Reagrds

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Vin2
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 08:28 AM

Sorry, late in reading this but thanks all for info!

Vin

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 10:04 AM

Doesn't 'ogue' mean 'young', or is that 'og' ??

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 10:47 AM

"óg" on its own does mean "young", but it doesn't seem to form part of the word "feadóg". I've never seen it spelled any other way (open to correction on this) though it's sometimes altered according to grammatical usage, e.g. Tír na nÓg" (land of youth).

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 01:03 PM

SO cool!

~S~

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 04:37 PM

Leamh is an Irish word that is difficult to translate directly...it means bland, tasteless, lifeless,,,more or less.

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 05:17 PM

-óg is a suffix often meaning young but also meaning small, so that faológ - a northern word for seagull - means a small wolf, for instance.

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 08:27 PM

You may hear a male from Ireland pronounce the word feadóg on
http://www.forvo.com/word/fead%C3%B3g/

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: Leadfingers
Date: 05 Nov 11 - 10:08 PM

I wish I could get a DECENT 'Penny Whistle' Even Tony Dixon's excellent plastic tubes start at the best part of twenty Quid !

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 12:17 PM

fead�g ?

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: terrier
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 02:48 PM

Whilst this thread has popped up again, can anyone help with the pronunciation (please)of the reel 'Sean Sa Ceo'. I believe it translates something like 'John in the fog'?

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 03:57 AM

Séan= Shawn
Sa=Su (as in suck)
Ceo=Kyo

And yes, it means Séan in the Fog.

BTW Sean (without the accent) is pronounced to rhyme with "sham" & it translates as "old"

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 05:28 AM

The accent should be on the a, Seán, not Séan! Sorry!

Subject: RE: Feadog - meaning
From: terrier
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 05:45 AM

Thanks for that CrazyEddie, glad you understood what I meant(forgot the accent).