{"id":22,"date":"2006-04-02T18:27:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/02\/word-of-the-day-cnatan-scottish-gaelic\/"},"modified":"2006-04-02T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T17:27:43","slug":"cnatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day – cnatan"},"content":{"rendered":"

cnatan<\/a>, noun = cold<\/p>\n

Tha’n cnatan orm<\/a> = I have a cold (lit. “Is the cold on me”)
\nTha an cnatan a’ tighinn orm<\/a> = I’m getting a cold (lit. “Is the cold a coming on me”)<\/p>\n

Another way to say I have a cold, which I do at moment, which is why I chose this word, is tha fuachd agam<\/a> (lit. “Is coldness with me”).<\/p>\n

The equivalent phrases in the other Celtic languages I know are:<\/p>\n

Irish Gaelic: T\u00e1 slaghd\u00e1n orm<\/a>
\nManx Gaelic: Ta feayraght orrym<\/a>
\nWelsh: Mae annwyd arna i<\/a><\/p>\n

All these mean, literally, “Is cold on me”<\/p>\n

These phrases illustate some interesting aspects shared by the Celtic languages, such as the verb-first word order, and the way of showing possession. You don’t ‘have’ something in these languages, instead something is on you or with you.<\/p>\n

They also give an example of how personal pronouns combine with prepositions. For example, orm (on me) is a combination of air (on) + mi (I\/me). If you wanted to say “He has a cold”, it would be “Tha’n cnatan air”, and “We have colds” would be “Tha’n cnatan oirnn”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

cnatan, noun = cold Tha’n cnatan orm = I have a cold (lit. “Is the cold on me”) Tha an cnatan a’ tighinn orm = I’m getting a cold (lit. “Is the cold a coming on me”) Another way to say I have a cold, which I do at moment, which is why I chose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}