Etymology of Jazz
Ellis goes to Kildare and finds the jazz called St. Brigid's Fire
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Jazz: What is the origin of the word Jazz? The Irish word Teas is pronounced jazz, jass, chas, or t'as. |
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The House of Fire - St. Bridgid's Teas (Jass) Heat The pagan Goddess Brigid's feast day and the Xtian St. Brigid's Day. The Day of the Gin-i-ker - Tine caor (also spelled teine caor) means " a fireball, a thunderbolt, a meteor, a raging fire, lightning. " (1) Bridget's fire (tine) is the thunderbolt (tine caor) of fifth and sixth century Irish literacy. It flashes with the sacred jazz (teas, pron. "jass," heat, enthusiasm, and passion) of knowledge. Tine caor, teine caor, caor thine, Dineen, pp.163, 1200)
IMBOLC (Feb. 1st ) is her sacred day in both the old Celtic religion and the latter-day Celtic-Christian calendar. Happy St. Brigid's Day! The day of the gin-i-ker (tine caor) and jazz (teas).
Trace the etymology and sanas of the word JAZZ.
Ellis makes the research available to you in PDF files showing The Etymology of Jazz and many other words that originally come from Irish American Vernacular English providing citations and references.
It takes the gift of the goddess to unite Karen Ellis and the internet with the key 1982 "GIN-I-KER" citation from the 1940's scholarship of Peter Tamony described by labor leader and folklorist Archie Green as "the keeper of the lore of the Irish clans of San Francisco."; WITH Professor Dan Cassidy, and the source of the word "Jazz" back to Kildare, Ireland.
GINIKER
Irish Guys Writing with Irish Words.
WORDS WITH GAELIC ROOTS -
Movie titled "Her Twelve Men" (1954) about 1/2 hour into the movie the Gym Teacher advises Ms. Stuart the struggling teacher played by Greer Garson to give her 12 students, all boys, an assignment that has GINIKER! In other words, a lesson that will get the boys excited - enthusiastic - and passionate. The gym teacher says "giniker". Giniker means passion, enthsiasm, energy. It is the lightening bolt that starts the fire. (movie trailer)
Some American English slang words with Mr Cassidy's version of their Irish root below:
- Buck: a strong and spirited young man
boc: a wag, a playboy - Caca: euphemism for excrement
Cac/caca - excrement, filth, probably derived from the Latin caco - Cantankerous: grumpy, awkward
Ceanndanacht arsa - old obstinacy, aged wilfulness. - Cold turkey: cut off an addiction abruptly
Coilleoireach, coillteoireachta - cutting off, expurgation - Daddy-o - affectionate term for trendy male
Daideo - grandfather - Freaky: strange or unsettling
Fraochaidhe: fierce, fuerious, passionate - Gee Whiz: exclamation
Dia Uas: Great God! - Geezer: fellow
Gaomshar, gaosach: a wise person - Hick: a rural person
Aitheach: a peasant - Racket: organised crime
Ragaireachd: violence, extortion - Razzmatazz: showing off, extravagance
Roiseadh mortas: high spirits and exultation.
Paddy Works On The Railway Retranslated
At the hour of rising I return to work upon the railway...
Sla/n agus beannacht
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** PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY aka Paddy Works On The Erie” by Anon. (ca. 1835)
Carl Sandburg, American Song Bag, pp. 356-357
sung by Daniel Cassidy 3.17.05 San Francisco
This foundational American work-song goes back to New York State in the 1830s and '40s. This is the first time Paddy Works on the Erie aka Paddy Works on the Railway's famous refrain has been re-translated back into its linguistic root in the Irish language. Prior to this it was thought the language of the chorus of Paddy Works on The Erie was made up of nothing but what was thought of as "nonsense syllables." They were not nonsense. These Irish Words are known by Irish people, and Scholars of Irish Studies.
Irish railroad worker's grave uncovered in Pennsylvania . The real story of Paddy Works on the Railway "In Pennsylvania in the 19th century, it was said that every mile of railroad was an Irish grave. Recently, lost cemeteries have been found along the old northeastern railroad lines, hurried mass burials in improvised gravesites, often involving typhus, cholera, smallpox, and other infectious diseases that plagued poor Paddy, working on the railway." Song Lyrics Retranslated
When we left Ireland to come here,
And spend out latter days in cheer,
Our bosses they did drink strong beer,
And Pat worked on the railway.
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
To work upon the railway.
Our contractor's name it was Tom King,
He kept a store to rob the men,
A Yankee clerk with ink and pen,
To cheat Pat on the railroad.
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
Fil-i-me-oo-re-i-re-ay
To work upon the railway.
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JAZZ IS IRISH
21st Century
Linguistic Rights
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.
"We build up whole cultural intellectual patterns based on past 'facts' which are extremely selective. When a new fact comes in that does not fit the pattern we don't throw out the pattern. We throw out the fact. A contradictory fact has to keep hammering and hammering and hammering, sometimes for centuries, before maybe one or two people see it. And then these one or two have to start hammering on others for a long time before they see it too . . ."
~ Pirsig from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance"
SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING
BELIEVING IS SEEING."
FACT:
Understanding is best achieved when aspects of reality are studied in isolation from each other (biology, history, physics, language, etc.).
CONTRADICTORY FACT:
Understanding is best achieved when the holistic nature of reality is recognized so that all knowledge becomes part of a single, mutually supportive conceptual framework.
VERNACULAR ENGLISH
STIGMATIZED VERNACULARS
Dialect can be so completely absorbed into American Standard English that you'd never guess it wasn't always American English. Tracing words from Irish which are thought of as "nonsense syllables" as Irish American Vernacular English is hard work. These words aren't recognized as "borrowed" Irish words, that finally make it into American Standard English. Woefully ignorant out of date dictionaries that print "origin unknown" need to get up to speed.
DICTIONARIES, PEDANTIC SCHOLARSHIP, HISTORY AND MYTH MAKING
Notice the Irish people in this film when Gary Cooper the English Professor who is NOT a linguist goes out there to do "research". He hears the word boogie for the first time and you watch him writing his slang words. He is one of several with the authority to put it into the Encyclopedia which is only the beginning of our problems, in Ball of Fire written by Billy Wilder in 1941. "Slang is words that takes off his coat, spits on it's hands and gets to workk." ~ anon
Gene Krupa - Drum Boogie notice the ignorant "english professor" writing everything down.This page contains a Flash video. To view it requires that the Flash plugin is installed and Javascript enabled.
IF YOU EXPECT A PERFECT WORLD See Citations, References, Tracing and Borrowing Resources:
The Sanas of Teason and the Sanas of Ráig to Rag to Ragged to Ragtime to JAZZ. Mardi Gras, "New Second Line", Jasm, Jism, Ginker, Buckaroos, Buccaneer, Pizzazz, Fizz, Fizzle, Sizzle, Big Butter and Eggman, Slum, Racket Fluke Lulu, Irish baseball words, Yippie Ty Yi Yo Git along little Doggies, House of Fire, and much much more but remember. . .
"You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, professor." In this case it is about the Thought Police.
Dictionary Censors - And just like any other person, can be ignorant, arrogant, classist, sexist, out of their depth, and very wrong. Unfortunately Irish etymology of the word Jazz isn't recognized by Dictionary Dic$, publisher$, editor$, online player$, and word a dayer$ who happen to control what gets into a print a dictionary. And since you can't think without words rob an entire NATION of their memory. The Oxford English Dictionary, the Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and the American Heritage Dictionary all agree that the origin of the word Jazz is “not known.”
From the Goddess to the Dictionary Dics
When you get mad, you look for words that attack what represses you. In America, we are so Puritan that the swearing is mostly about sex.
Jazz is Irish, it is known.
For those who habitually quote other origins of word sites As was said in Liberty Vallance, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." and that's what they do. Anecdotally, I've been to Ireland, and asked native language speakers to tell me the Irish word for heat. They do say Jazz and EVERYONE in Ireland knows it means heat! Native speakers are the real authorities. Look in your Irish Dictionary.
LINGUISTIC RIGHTS: RESPECT AND JUSTICE
LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD
Jazz is Irish. This isn't a theory, this is a fact and dictionaries do not print JAZZ IS IRISH or even that it "MIGHT" be, but print other imagined fractured fairytales aka memes instead.
Irish Subject Scholars
Evidence has been provided to pedantic "professors of english and foreign languages", so called "academics" and dictionary dicks, and dismissed, not for lack of "proof" but because they don't have the tools to evaluate the informationand they admit it. The point is that every word of Cassidy's etymologies could be correct, but people not well-trained in Irish, Music, Irish, Yiddish, Sicilian, and other stigmatized varieties/vernaculars, are not able to evaluate the scholarship that is presented here.
JAZZ IS IRISH
Print Dictionaries can be wrong, have been wrong, and have also been pressured to correct themselves by other people who have the power to publish on the internet!
2005 Example: A landmark decision was made last week with the people at Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
They have recognized the error of their ways. Beginning with the next edition, the N word NI--ER will no longer be synonymous with African-Americans. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said that definition "doesn't say, Once used to describe a black person, a slur.' It says, A black person."
He also mentioned "The NAACP finds it objectionable that the Merriam-Webster would use black people as a definition for a racist term." The (Baltimore) Sun reported that the NAACP said it would lead a boycott against the publisher if the word's definition were not revised.
21ST CENTURY LINGUISTIC RIGHTS
What are a Nation's Linguistic Rights?
We can can have justice for the Irish word Jazz despite continued colonial tyranny keeping a people from their language and culture. You can liberate your language and for all the lost tongues of the crossroad. You now have access to the correct information about the sanas of jazz, in spite of the "thought police" who have in the past controlled print machines and had the power to censor the information from you. This is the beauty and power of the Internet.
The internet allows everyone to publish, and challenge the so called "authority at the top" by all of us at the bottom over these agonizingly contrived, tortured, and incorrect stories about this word jazz currently in print dictionaries. Only the internet can interrupt the endless $treams of the dictionary bu$iness supply chain while their power over what we are allowed to know, erodes into oblivion and becomes an forgotten blip in history. Only the internet and pressure from the public, can level the playing field and provide democracy.
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If you are using MLA citing, here is an example using the "Educational CyberPlayGround" site.
Ellis, Karen: "Educational CyberPlayGround 21st Century Linguisitc Rights" Internet.
Database available online. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com.
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THE SANAS OF JAZZ IS IRISH.
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CROSSROADS IRISH-AMERICAN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES PETER TAMONY
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