Dudelsack

Concepts

bagpipes

bagpipe

pipe

pipes

play

yielding

Breton bagpipes

Breton

gaida

blower

Synonyms

Sackpfeife

Pfeifensack

Jagdhorn

spielen

bretonisch

Bockpfeife

Translations

cornemuse

doedelzak

cornamusa

gaita

gayda

gaita

zampogna

γκάιντα

άσκαυλος

gaita de foles

cornamusa

القربة

biniou

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈduːdəlˌzak/

Etymology

Formally dudeln (“play monotone music, tootle”) + Sack (“sack, bag”). While it is uncertain whether the verb dudeln as such is originally Slavic or not, its use in Dudelsack is definitely based on Czech and/or Polish dudy (“bagpipes”). The latter was also borrowed into early modern German as Dudei.