のう / 吹き鳴らす / 見てらっしゃい / 後

[eeky]

Hi,

1. 「それがのう、わしはもう、新しい「占い学」教師を見つけておる」

Is のう = の? What does それがの(う) mean?

2.「ラッパ水仙を持ってね・・・スプラウト先生が育てているラッパを吹き鳴らすやつじゃなくて・・・」

What does 吹き鳴らす mean?

3.「まあ、見てらっしゃい」

I assume らっしゃい = いらっしゃい. This is in an informal chat between two school pupils, so why would such a formal word be used?

4. 朝食の後、・・・

後 has the furigana のち. I wonder why, since it is a simple character (albeit I am often unsure how it is pronounced in any given context, but I assume native readers would have no such problem). Are there multiple ways to pronounce 後 here? What is the difference?

 

[Mike Cash]

2. Just what the characters would indicate.... to cause to sound by blowing. It's talking about playing a ラッパ.

3 & 4 somewhat formal/archaic speech. You're reading Harry Potter; its loaded with this sort of stuff, isn't it?

見てらっしゃい
見て(い)なさい
見て(い)ろ

Sometimes the reading isn't always clear even to all native speakers, hence the presence of the furigana.

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
の（う） is a sentence final particle (well, it should be called "clause final", though); old people's dialect version of ね（え）.

2)
の in the above is exactly the same function as this ね.

As Mike-san explained, it's 吹いて鳴らす.
e.g.
太鼓を打ち鳴らす
ギターを弾き鳴らす

3)
It's more likely "refined", rather than "formal". The speaker is a girl, right?

4)
The meaning is the same, but another possible reading あと sounds more colloquial.

 

[eeky]

Thank you both, I was reading (2) as ラッパ(水仙)を吹き鳴らす, which is why it made no sense.

3) Yes, it is spoken by a girl. In answer to Mike Cash's question, some of the characters, like Professor Dumbledore, speak in elaborate or old-fashioned language, while others, such as Hagrid, speak in a rough dialect. However, this character, Hermione, although she is a bit swotty, usually talks in fairly normal language, as far as I can tell. You may get a distorted view of the extent of old-fashioned or unusual language from my posts because it tends to be the unusual language that I don't understand and hence ask about.

4) This is in narrative not dialogue. So, the author's purpose in adding the furigana is to give the text a more formal tone, yes?

 

[Toritoribe]

Yes, that's right.