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IRISH ELEMENTS

cognate spelling · click a letter, type its sound, name the metal
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Ten chemical elements are given in Irish (Gaeilge) with their English names. Same alphabet, very different spelling rules — long vowels take an acute (síneadh fada), consonants are split into "broad" vs "slender" by the vowels next to them, and the -ium ending becomes -iam. Click any Irish letter — every occurrence of it lights up across every word, and the alphabet pad lets you pin down the sound each letter is making. Then read off the six test elements. scratchpad tab on the right has notes + a drawing surface.

rosetta · ten known elements click any Irish letter to light it up
alphabet pad · type the sounds phoneme cheatsheet ↗
Each chip is one Irish letter from the corpus. Click it (or any matching letter in the rosetta) to light up its occurrences and focus the input — type the English-style sound you hear. The sound shows up under every instance of that letter and saves across reloads.
test · name the six elements
what your browser remembers (per-puzzle, on this device only) alphabet — your typed phoneme per Irish letter · test answers — solved + revealed rows · timer — elapsed seconds, frozen on full solve · notes — the scratchpad textarea · drawing — strokes on the scratchpad canvas (PNG snapshot).

Source: PuzzLing Machines (UKP Lab, 2020), CC BY 1.0 — corpus puzzle 7d1c2512cfa0, originally from the international linguistics olympiad set. The reverse-direction test items (English given, produce Irish) are held out blind in the upstream corpus and are not included here; this page only grades the six forward items. Looking for more? browse the other puzzles.