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The Welsh word llawr<\/strong> [\u026cau\u032fr] means floor, deck, gallery, stage, platform, cellar, basement, ground, face, and a few other things. I discovered today that it has cognates in all the other Celtic languages:<\/p>\n – leur<\/strong> (Cornish) = floor, ground These words all come from the Proto-Celtic *\u0278l\u0101rom<\/em> (floor), which comes from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh\u2082rom<\/em> or *ploh\u2082rom<\/em>, from *pleh\u2082-<\/em> \u200e(to be flat).<\/p>\n THe PIE word *pleh\u2082-<\/em> is the root of many other words, including:<\/p>\n – The English piano<\/strong>, plain<\/strong>, plan<\/strong>, floor<\/strong> and flake<\/strong> Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Maga Cornish Dictionary \/ Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, Dictionnaires bilingues de Francis Favereau<\/a>, teanglann.ie<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Reverso<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Welsh word llawr [\u026cau\u032fr] means floor, deck, gallery, stage, platform, cellar, basement, ground, face, and a few other things. I discovered today that it has cognates in all the other Celtic languages: – leur (Cornish) = floor, ground – leur (Breton) = area, ground, floor, soil – l\u00e1r (Irish) = ground, floor, middle, centre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,102,104,107,116,127,128,10,23,45,52,56,64,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-manx","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475","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=13475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– leur<\/strong> (Breton) = area, ground, floor, soil
\n– l\u00e1r<\/strong> (Irish) = ground, floor, middle, centre
\n– l\u00e0r<\/strong> (Scottish Gaelic) = floor, ground, storey
\n– laare<\/strong> (Manx) = storey, deck, floor, bottom, flat, set, sill, level<\/p>\n
\n – The Dutch vloer<\/strong> (floor, ground, surface)
\n – The German Flur<\/strong> (hall, hallway, corridor, stairwell)
\n – The Italian piano<\/strong> (flat, level, smooth, plane, softly, quietly)
\n – The Spanish llano<\/strong> (even, flat, level, plain) and plano<\/strong> (plain, level, flat)
\n – The Latvian: plats, pla\u0161s<\/strong> \u200e(wide, broad)
\n – The Lithuanian: platus<\/strong> \u200e(wide, broas)
\n – The Russian \u043f\u043b\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439<\/strong> (flat, plain, level)<\/p>\n