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Pádraig Maloney… The Chieftains 💖 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.8.131.87 (talk) 02:27, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

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I dont know any Irish, but it seems to me that the pronunciations given are backwards. Right now in the lede it says Pádraig is /ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəc/ and Pádraic is /ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ/. I know Irish spelling can be unpredictable but shouldn't it at least be the spelling with "g" that's the voiced consonant and "c" the voiceless? The infobox, at least, suggests /ɟ/ for "g". Soap 22:10, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Origin

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I was always told that Patrick derived from the diminutive of the Gaelicised version of Peter: Peadaraig -> Peadraig -> Padraic.

Looking at it, this doesn't really explain the long vowel, so it's probably wrong, but it seems odd at there's no mention of this theory in the article.

Prof Wrong (talk) 08:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]