{"id":21501,"date":"2021-10-08T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21501"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:32:54","slug":"concerts-and-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21501","title":{"rendered":"Concerts and Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish word <strong>ceolchoirm<\/strong> [\u02c8c\u02b2ol\u02e0.xor\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2] means concert. It is made up of <strong>ceol<\/strong> (music) and <strong>coirm<\/strong> [kor\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2] (feast, banquet, ale, beer). There are similar words in Scottish Gaelic (<strong>cuirm-chi\u00f9il<\/strong>), and Manx (<strong>cuirrey kiaull<\/strong>) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ceolchoirm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/43535326692\/in\/album-72157671265431635\/\" title=\"\u00c1nuna\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1785\/43535326692_93f8c49c87_z.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c1nuna\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>coirm<\/strong> comes from the Old Irish word <em>coirm<\/em> (ale, beer), from the Proto-Celtic <strong>*kurmi<\/strong> (beer). Words for beer in the Brythonic Celtic languages come from the same root: <strong>cwrw<\/strong> in Welsh, and <strong>korev<\/strong> in Cornish and Breton [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/kurmi\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Latin word <em>cerv\u0113s(i)a<\/em> [ker\u02c8u\u032fe\u02d0.si.a], which means beer made of wheat, especially of higher quality, comes from the same Proto-Celtic root, as do words for beer in some Romance languages, including <strong>cervexa<\/strong> in Galician, <strong>cervesa<\/strong> in Catalan and Occitan, <strong>cerveza<\/strong> in Spanish and <strong>cerveja<\/strong> in Portuguese [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cervesia#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>From the same Proto-Celtic root we get the French word <strong>cervoise<\/strong> [s\u025b\u0281.vwaz], which was a kind of ale or beer made from barley or wheat and without hops during the Middle Ages [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cervoise#French\">source<\/a>]. The archaic Italian word <strong>cervogia<\/strong> [t\u0361\u0283er\u02c8v\u0254.d\u0361\u0292a] (beer, ale made from barley or oats) was borrowed from the Old French <em>cervoise<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cervogia#Italian\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The usual French word for beer is <strong>bi\u00e8re<\/strong> [bj\u025b\u0281], which was borrowed from the Middle Dutch <em>bier\/b\u0113r<\/em> (beer), from the Old Dutch <em>*bier<\/em>, from Frankish <em>*bior<\/em> (beer), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*beuz\u0105<\/em> (beer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bi%C3%A8re#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/diannbayes\/30108765776\/in\/photolist-MSBi6j-br7NhA-bAdXnv-2wWKhZ-ALnshM-Lnmiu-dmSnrN-gAR9t5-gARDT9-5DMyrq-bysKZi-rBLEQ-8wogyZ-5czFNf-21o6JM-5hjsXr-2LCiA-8j6uT5-gqiFg-9ous4q-HFgisg-8eKTiG-9N5KWu-9nWnKJ-4E6bgT-77utSa-9oufB7-aF74Jb-79Pusd-7hDVmC-3WBeg-21JDv-5v4xyL-9TL8Ff-bCRz5-8jbsvA-45Eu3m-9ZXYLD-bjaZCT-bvGxQ4-7sj3yx-ejtKe2-6P3SWW-7Ci6YD-393VQH-sEQRAK-4pvPcE-6qgVj5-u7kywy-bvGF1t\" title=\"Beer samples\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8270\/30108765776_c5121ff91a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Beer samples\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words for beer is some Germanic languages come from the same root, including <strong>Bier<\/strong> in German, <strong>bier<\/strong> in Dutch, and <strong>beer<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/beuz%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Italian word for beer, <strong>birra<\/strong>, was borrowed from the German <strong>Bier<\/strong>, and the Greek word <strong>\u03bc\u03c0\u03af\u03c1\u03b1<\/strong> (b\u00edra &#8211; beer, ale) was borrowed from Italian, as were words for beer in Arabic, <strong>\u0628\u0650\u064a\u0631\u064e\u0627\u200e<\/strong> (b\u012br\u0101), Maltese, <strong>birra<\/strong>, and Turkish, <strong>bira<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/birra#Italian\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Irish word <strong>beoir<\/strong> (beer) comes from the Middle Irish <em>be\u00f3ir<\/em> (beer), from Old Norse <em>bj\u00f3rr<\/em> (beer), which also has descendents in Scottish Gaelic (<strong>be\u00f2ir<\/strong>), Manx  (<strong>beer<\/strong>), Icelandic (<strong>bj\u00f3r<\/strong>) and Faroese (<strong>bj\u00f3r<\/strong>) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bj%C3%B3rr#Old_Norse\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Another word for beer or ale in North Germanic languages is <strong>\u00f8l<\/strong> (in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian) \/ <strong>\u00f6l<\/strong> (in Swedish and Icelandic). This comes from the Old Norse word <em>\u01ebl<\/em> (ale, beer), possibly from the Proto-Norse <em>\u16a8\u16da\u16a2<\/em> (alu &#8211; ale), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*alu<\/em> (beer, ale), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*h\u2082elut-<\/em> (beer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%C7%ABl#Old_Norse\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for beer in Finnic languages possibly come from the same Proto-Germanic root, including <strong>\u00f5lu<\/strong> in Estonian, <strong>olut<\/strong> in Finnish, Igrian, Karelian and Veps, and <strong>oluq<\/strong> in V\u00f5ro [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic\/olut\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Slavic languages words for beer come from the Proto-Slavic <em>*p\u020bvo<\/em> (drink, beer, beverage), including <strong>\u043f\u0438\u0432\u043e<\/strong> (pivo) in Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian, <strong>pivo<\/strong> in Slovenian, Czech and Slovak, and <strong>piwo<\/strong> in Polish and Sorbian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic\/pivo\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a map of words for beer in European languages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/euopreanbeermap.gif\" alt=\"A map of Europe showing words for beer\" width=\"600\" height=\"609\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ukdataexplorer.com\/european-translator\/?word=beer\">https:\/\/ukdataexplorer.com\/european-translator\/?word=beer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish word ceolchoirm [\u02c8c\u02b2ol\u02e0.xor\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2] means concert. It is made up of ceol (music) and coirm [kor\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2] (feast, banquet, ale, beer). There are similar words in Scottish Gaelic (cuirm-chi\u00f9il), and Manx (cuirrey kiaull) [source]. The word coirm comes from the Old Irish word coirm (ale, beer), from the Proto-Celtic *kurmi (beer). Words for beer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,92,93,94,97,99,100,102,104,106,107,108,109,110,111,113,116,118,124,127,128,10,15,21,23,182,31,203,36,39,41,43,44,45,52,56,57,60,61,64,67,74,75,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-breton","category-bulgarian","category-catalan","category-cornish","category-czech","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-estonian","category-etymology","category-faroese","category-finnish","category-frankish","category-french","category-galician","category-german","category-greek","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-macedonian","category-manx","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-norwegian","category-old-dutch","category-old-norse","category-polish","category-portuguese","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-serbian","category-slovak","category-slovenian","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-turkish","category-ukrainian","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501","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=21501"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21515,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions\/21515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}