{"id":20903,"date":"2021-04-29T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:53:23","slug":"honeyed-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20903","title":{"rendered":"Honeyed Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across an interesting idiom in Scottish Gaelic: <strong>mil air do bheul<\/strong>, which means &#8220;that\u2019s wonderful\/excellent news&#8221; or literally, &#8220;honey on your mouth&#8221;. Perhaps this was coined when honey was difficult to obtain, so having honey on your mouth would be considered good thing.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lowlevelrebel\/2913556446\/in\/photolist-5rsJPQ-7WyUnN-CcN28-6siQ1p-c6AJS9-5dCeGu-cv5Mvw-feDSJ6-KKjPMG-Pc36EM-aHuEf-4N9u4H-6RYQDN-bhDjXt-bqVovs-s9Ss-5D4Fst-BtXMH-6qHYnE-fvxVmt-6qHYeb-fJ9Z9d-6qHYi9-QoqV86-bS42dv-2fxSohp-8a2FZ1-SRkWXS-2aeziSU-7ocprp-CcP5D-2bVLXZQ-Rirt7s-5zHJYS-ERD5gh-TNckAZ-6PQTZj-qrpKKc-w6TYpz-dkEzaV-w6JZn5-ao3wHP-2EtVaT-6xTS46-Qv46wQ-6RUMPc-6RYQBW-x4iQft-wL9R4Q-P246xY\" title=\"Honey Harvest\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3136\/2913556446_7fd1f53042_o.jpg\" alt=\"Honey Harvest\" width=\"576\" height=\"369\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Welsh if you have honey on your sandwich or bread, or <strong>m\u00eal ar dy frechdan\/fara<\/strong>, it is considered a source of pleasure, which makes sense to me. Also, having honey on your fingers, or <strong>m\u00eal ar dy fysedd<\/strong>, is music to your ears, or taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, or in other words, indulging in schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p>In Irish if there is honey on your every word, or <strong>t\u00e1 mil ar gach focal agat<\/strong>, then you are speaking sweetly, perhaps with honeyed words. If you really enjoy your food, you could say that there is honey on your food, or <strong>t\u00e1 mil ar an mbia agat<\/strong>. If you cover someone with honey, or <strong>duine a chl\u00fadach le mil<\/strong>, you are showering them with kindness, and if there is honey on your tall-stemmed grass, or <strong>t\u00e1 mil ar chuiseogach agat<\/strong>, then you are having a delightful time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">https:\/\/www.faclair.com\/<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/mil\">https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/mil<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More honeyed words in Celtic languages can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/15\/honey\/\">Celtiadur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any other interesting honey-related idioms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I came across an interesting idiom in Scottish Gaelic: mil air do bheul, which means &#8220;that\u2019s wonderful\/excellent news&#8221; or literally, &#8220;honey on your mouth&#8221;. Perhaps this was coined when honey was difficult to obtain, so having honey on your mouth would be considered good thing. Meanwhile, in Welsh if you have honey on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,125,127,10,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-idioms","category-irish","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","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=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20915,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions\/20915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}