{"id":14302,"date":"2017-07-31T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2017-07-31T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:20:57","slug":"how-many-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14302","title":{"rendered":"How many roads?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week I learned that there are quite a few words for roads in Irish. These include:<\/p>\n

b\u00f3thar<\/strong> [\u02c8b\u02e0o\u02d0h\u0259\u027e\u02e0] = road; way, manner. From the Proto-Celtic *bow-itros<\/em> (cow path). <\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– b\u00f3thar [bo\u02d0.\u0259r] = alley, lane (Scottish Gaelic)
\n– bayr [bajr] = avenue, drive, lane, pad, roadway (Manx)
\n– beidr [beid\u026ar] = lane, track (Welsh)
\n– bownder [‘b\u0254\u028and\u025br] = lane (Cornish)<\/p>\n

b\u00f3ithr\u00edn<\/strong> = country lane, boreen (diminutive of b\u00f3thar<\/em>)<\/p>\n

bealach<\/strong> [\u02c8b\u02b2al\u02e0\u0259x] = way, road track; pass. From the Old Irish belach<\/em> (gap, pass, road, path).<\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– bealach [bjal\u032a\u02e0\u0259x] = pass; access; detour; breach, gap, opening; inlet (Scottish Gaelic)
\n– bollagh = channel, course, curving uphill road, gap, gorge, lane, passage, route, thoroughfare (Manx)<\/p>\n

r\u00f3d<\/strong> [r\u02e0o\u02d0d\u02e0] = road, highway. From the Old Irish r\u00f3t<\/em> (road, highway).<\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– rathad [ra.ad] = road, way, route (Scottish Gaelic)
\n– raad [re\u02d0d\u032a, ra\u02d0d\u032a] = avenue, drive, lane, pad, roadway (Manx)
\n– rhawd [r\u0325aud] = course, career (Welsh)
\n– roud = route, trace (Breton)<\/p>\n

sl\u00ed<\/strong> [\u0283li\u02d0] = way, road, track, route, passage. From the Old Irish slige<\/em> (gap, pass, road, path).<\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– slighe [\u0283l\u032a\u02b2i.\u0259] = path, track, trail, way; course, passage, route (Scottish Gaelic)<\/p>\n

cos\u00e1n<\/strong> = path; footway, track; way, passage; direction. From the Old Irish cas\u00e1n<\/em> (path, footpath), from c\u00e1s<\/em> (foot).<\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– casan [kasan] = path; supporting beam; treadle; wattle (Scottish Gaelic)
\n– cassan [ke\u02d0z\u0259n] = passage, path, pathway, sidewalk, thoroughfare; walk, footpath; trajectory (Manx)<\/p>\n

cabhsa<\/strong> = causeway; path, lane<\/p>\n

sr\u00e1id<\/strong> [s\u02e0\u027e\u02e0\u0251\u02d0d\u02b2] = street; level (surfaced) ground around house; village. From the Old Irish sr\u00e1it<\/em> (street, road, path, way), from the Old Norse str\u00e6ti<\/em> (street), from Late Latin str\u0101ta<\/em> (a paved road).<\/p>\n

Related words in other Celtic languages: <\/p>\n

– sr\u00e0id [sdra\u02d0d\u02b2] = street (Scottish Gaelic)
\n– straid = street; farmyard; thoroughfare (Manx)
\n– stryd [stri\u02d0d] = street (Welsh)
\n– stret [str\u025b:t] = street (Cornish)
\n– straed = alley, lane (Breton)<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the English word road comes from the Middle English rode\/rade<\/em>, from the Old English r\u0101d<\/em> (riding, hostile incursion), from the Proto-Germanic *raid\u014d<\/em> (a ride), from the Proto-Indo-European *reyd\u02b0-<\/em> (to ride).<\/p>\n

Sources: teanglann.ie<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a>, Fockleyreen<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, Dictionnaire Favereau breton<\/a>, cornish dictionary \/ gerlyver kernewek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I learned that there are quite a few words for roads in Irish. These include: b\u00f3thar [\u02c8b\u02e0o\u02d0h\u0259\u027e\u02e0] = road; way, manner. From the Proto-Celtic *bow-itros (cow path). Related words in other Celtic languages: – b\u00f3thar [bo\u02d0.\u0259r] = alley, lane (Scottish Gaelic) – bayr [bajr] = avenue, drive, lane, pad, roadway (Manx) – beidr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,107,127,10,15,23,36,45,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302","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=14302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}