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单词 pennill
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pennilln.

Brit. /ˈpɛnɪl/, /ˈpɛnɪɬ/, U.S. /ˈpɛnɪl/, Welsh English /ˈpɛnːɪɬ/
Inflections: Plural penillion Brit. /pɛˈnɪɬlɪən/, U.S. /pəˈnɪljən/, Welsh English /pɛˈnɪɬːɪɔn/.
Forms: 1700s pennyll, 1700s 1900s– pennill, 1700s–1800s pennillion (plural), 1800s penhillion (plural), 1800s penill.
Origin: A borrowing from Welsh. Etymon: Welsh pennill.
Etymology: < Welsh pennill verse, stanza (14th cent.), stall in a stable (13th cent.; also occasionally penhill ; plural penillion ), apparently cognate with Old Breton pentil pigsty, further etymology uncertain, perhaps < pen head (see pen n.1) + a second element of unknown origin.The stable was also used as accommodation for farmworkers and hence as a place of entertainment. Compare the more recent Welsh caneuon llofft stabal, literally ‘stable loft songs’, a type of popular song.
An improvised Welsh verse sung to a harp accompaniment; a stanza of such verse. Usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung > other poems to be sung
ronc1225
madrigal1586
serenade1710
pennill1784
pada1873
cantiga1915
1784 E. Jones (title) Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards..with a choice collection of the Pennillion.
1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin ix. 125 The bards..struck up a sort of consecutive chorus, in a series of pennillion, or stanzas, in praise of Maelgon and his heirship.
1887 J. Thomas in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 438 The singers continue to take up their Penill alternately with the harp.
1895 Wales Aug. 338/1 Whether we consider the form or the contents of the penhillion, it is not too much to say that many of them belong to the best part of Welsh literature.
1980 Logophile 4 i. 49/1 I have just discovered what a pennill is. It is a traditional Welsh form of improvised verse, normally sung to an accompaniment.

Compounds

attributive, esp. in pennill singer, pennill singing.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others
mourner1631
catcher1652
monodist1751
pennill singer1784
folk-singer1898
moaner1927
bluesman1930
calypsonian1934
torch singer1934
lieder-singer1936
torcher1940
country singer1953
protest singer1966
ragga1997
1784 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards 30 There are several kinds of Pennill metres... The skill of the pennill-singers in this is admirable.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Aug. 15/3 Sir J. H. Puleston informed the Prince of the rules of pennillion singing.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 5/2 Eos Dâr, the leading penillion-singer, sang to the accompaniment of the harp the traditional penillion sung at Welsh weddings.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 1009/2 A certain limited group of harp tunes are habitually used for Penillion performances.
1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) iii. 69 One family regularly..competes in penillion singing and poetry competitions at local and national eisteddfodau.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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