{"id":10416,"date":"2014-09-18T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:49:08","slug":"neo-eisimeileachd-unthirldom-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10416","title":{"rendered":"Neo-eisimeileachd \/ Unthirldom \/ Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

As there’s an independence referendum in Scotland today I thought I’d look at a few relevant words in Scottish Gaelic and Scots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
G\u00e0idhlig (Scottish Gaelic)<\/th>\nScots<\/th>\nEnglish<\/th>\n
reifreann [r\u02b2\u025bf\u0259r\u02b2\u025bn\u032a\u02e0]<\/td>\nreferendum<\/td>\nreferendum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
rneo-eisimeileachd [n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2\u0254 e\u0283\u026am\u0259l\u0259xg]<\/td>\nunthirldom<\/td>\nindependence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
neo-eisimeileach [n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2\u0254 e\u0283\u026am\u0259l\u0259x]<\/td>\nunthirlit<\/td>\nindependent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bh\u00f2t [vo\u02b0t\u032a]<\/td>\nvote<\/td>\nvote<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Etymologies<\/strong>
\n– neo-eisimeileachd<\/strong>: from neo-<\/em> (un-), from Irish neamh-\/neimh-<\/em>, from Middle Irish nem<\/em>, from Old Irish neb-, neph-<\/em>; and eisimeil<\/em> (dependence, obligation), from Middle Irish esimol<\/em> [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

– referendum<\/strong>: from the Latin referendum<\/em> (“that which must be referred” or lit. “thing brought back”), from referre<\/em> (to bring or take back), from re-<\/em> (back) and ferre<\/em> (carry) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

– independent<\/strong>: from in-<\/em> (not, opposite of) and dependent<\/em>, from French ind\u00e9pendant<\/em>, from d\u00e9pendant<\/em>, the present participle of d\u00e9pendre<\/em> (to hang down; to depend), from Latin dependentem<\/em>, from d\u0113pend\u0113o<\/em> (to hang down\/from; to depend on) from p\u0113nd\u0113re<\/em> (to droop, to hang (from), to slope, to slant) [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

– vote<\/strong>: from Latin v\u014dtum<\/em> (promise, dedication, vow; determination, will, desire; prayer), a form of vove\u014d<\/em> (I vow\/promise; dedicate\/devote to a deity; I wish\/desire.), from Proto-Indo-European *h\u2081wog\u02b7\u02b0-<\/em>. [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Independence in Scots is either independence<\/em> or unthirldom<\/em>, a word I found on Spawk<\/a>. It also appears on Wikipedia<\/a>, along with unthirlt<\/em> (independent) in the sentence: <\/p>\n

“Scots unthirldom is the poleetical muivement that thinks Scotland shoud poleetical sinder itsel frae the Unitit Kinrick, an become an unthirlt kintra wi ane govrenment an a sovereign pairlament.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Scottish independence is the political movement that thinks Scotland should politically separate itself from the United Kingdom, and become an independent country with its own government and a sovereign parliament.)<\/em><\/p>\n

– unthirldom<\/strong> and unthirlit<\/strong> come from unthirl = land outside the Sucken* or Thirl** of a particular mill; the dues paid to a mill for the grinding of corn grown on land not restricted to it [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

– unthirlit also means not enslaved or subjugated (to another)<\/p>\n

* Sucken [\u2032s\u028ck\u0259n] = the lands of an estate on which there was an obligation to grind corn at a certain mill, or the totality of the tenants of such lands [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

** Thirl [\u03b8\u026arl] = To lay under a certain obligation or restriction, specifically in Scots Law: to bind the lands of an estate or their tenants by the terms of lease to have the grain produced on the lands ground at a certain mill, to astrict the grinding of corn [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As there’s an independence referendum in Scotland today I thought I’d look at a few relevant words in Scottish Gaelic and Scots: G\u00e0idhlig (Scottish Gaelic) Scots English reifreann [r\u02b2\u025bf\u0259r\u02b2\u025bn\u032a\u02e0] referendum referendum rneo-eisimeileachd [n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2\u0254 e\u0283\u026am\u0259l\u0259xg] unthirldom independence neo-eisimeileach [n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2\u0254 e\u0283\u026am\u0259l\u0259x] unthirlit independent bh\u00f2t [vo\u02b0t\u032a] vote vote Etymologies – neo-eisimeileachd: from neo- (un-), from Irish neamh-\/neimh-, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,45,55,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}