port-a-beuln.

Brit.

/pɔːʃtəˈbiːəl/,

/pɔːtəˈbiːəl/, U.S.

/ˌpɔrʃtəˈbiəl/,

/ˌpɔrdəˈbiəl/, Scottish English

/porʃtəˈbiəl/,

/portəˈbiəl/

Inflections: Plural puirt-a-beul.

Forms: 1900s– port-a-beul, 1900s– port-a-bheul (rare), 1900s– puirt-a-beul.

Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic port-a-beul.

Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic port-a-beul < port port n.⁸ + a , perhaps showing the preposition a from, out of (Early Irish a , as < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin ex ex prep.) + beul mouth (Early Irish bél : see beal n.³). Compare mouth music n.The plural form puirt-a-beul corresponds to the Scottish Gaelic plural; in English it is also occasionally used as a singular. In the form port-a-bheul the second element has been reinterpreted as the Scottish Gaelic definite article an, a' followed by a genitive with initial mutation, which is a common construction and frequent in place names. However, the correct genitive of beul is a' bheòil. O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (porʃt a biəl) /ˈporʃtəˈbial/.

Scottish.

A fast-paced reel or dancing song consisting of a tune of Lowland Scottish origin to which repetitive, easily memorized Gaelic lyrics have been added, sung unaccompanied.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > vocal music without words

vocalise1857

mouth music1861

port-a-beul1901

throat singing1916

1901 K. N. MacDonald Puirt-a-beul 3 Puirt-a-beul, ‘mouth-tunes’, or ‘tunes for dancing’.

1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch i. iv. 45 An example of the old ‘mouth-music’—Port a Beul—to which the islanders used to dance before they had musical instruments.

1957 Sc. Stud. 1 133 The Puirt-a-beul are popularly supposed to have originated as a result of the religious opposition to musical instruments such as the bagpipes and the fiddle, which was at its strongest in the middle of the nineteenth century.

1974 People's Jrnl. 5 Jan. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 13/2 Other lively numbers are ‘Ta-Ra-Ra Bhoom Di-Ay’, written in Gaelic when that rhythm was the fashion and ‘Tha na Cailean Meallda’, a swinging puirt-a-beul.

1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 Aug. 7 MacGillivray's sparkling set..pointed up the way in which pipe tunes travelled, a Lowland anthem finding itself reshaped as a Barra port a beul.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	port-a-beul
释义	port-a-beuln. Brit. /pɔːʃtəˈbiːəl/, /pɔːtəˈbiːəl/, U.S. /ˌpɔrʃtəˈbiəl/, /ˌpɔrdəˈbiəl/, Scottish English /porʃtəˈbiəl/, /portəˈbiəl/ Inflections: Plural puirt-a-beul. Forms: 1900s– port-a-beul, 1900s– port-a-bheul (rare), 1900s– puirt-a-beul. Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic port-a-beul. Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic port-a-beul < port port n.⁸ + a , perhaps showing the preposition a from, out of (Early Irish a , as < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin ex ex prep.) + beul mouth (Early Irish bél : see beal n.³). Compare mouth music n.The plural form puirt-a-beul corresponds to the Scottish Gaelic plural; in English it is also occasionally used as a singular. In the form port-a-bheul the second element has been reinterpreted as the Scottish Gaelic definite article an, a' followed by a genitive with initial mutation, which is a common construction and frequent in place names. However, the correct genitive of beul is a' bheòil. O.E.D. Suppl. (1982) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (porʃt a biəl) /ˈporʃtəˈbial/. Scottish. A fast-paced reel or dancing song consisting of a tune of Lowland Scottish origin to which repetitive, easily memorized Gaelic lyrics have been added, sung unaccompanied. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > [noun] > vocal music without words vocalise1857 mouth music1861 port-a-beul1901 throat singing1916 1901 K. N. MacDonald Puirt-a-beul 3 Puirt-a-beul, ‘mouth-tunes’, or ‘tunes for dancing’. 1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch i. iv. 45 An example of the old ‘mouth-music’—Port a Beul—to which the islanders used to dance before they had musical instruments. 1957 Sc. Stud. 1 133 The Puirt-a-beul are popularly supposed to have originated as a result of the religious opposition to musical instruments such as the bagpipes and the fiddle, which was at its strongest in the middle of the nineteenth century. 1974 People's Jrnl. 5 Jan. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 13/2 Other lively numbers are ‘Ta-Ra-Ra Bhoom Di-Ay’, written in Gaelic when that rhythm was the fashion and ‘Tha na Cailean Meallda’, a swinging puirt-a-beul. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 Aug. 7 MacGillivray's sparkling set..pointed up the way in which pipe tunes travelled, a Lowland anthem finding itself reshaped as a Barra port a beul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1901
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