{"id":22724,"date":"2023-02-18T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22724"},"modified":"2023-02-18T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:26:36","slug":"kissing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22724","title":{"rendered":"Kissing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th February is a special day for some &#8211; <strong>Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/strong>, or in Scottish Gaelic <strong>L\u00e0 nam P\u00f2g<\/strong> (&#8220;Kissing Day&#8221;), which I think is a fun name for the day. Do any other languages have interesting names for Valentine&#8217;s Day?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/14915441@N07\/2197049560\/in\/photolist-7AxXUo-qHjzES-97pdoM-4m9skm-5SzMkS-c1Rr89-c3hnz9-dTZ7RP-c1RnK3-c1RrXb-c3fkgW-5VN6vz-c292xJ-c1Rozo-5SdTLp-7CZ8n5-7AucMK-5VAcnx-7v1Dz8-c1QYNs-c3fqhJ-c7xirN-YP92w7-yt8xv-E6UXvM-tBZgbV-c1xDCC-7CZ3yo-4m9shQ-c1yapU-c1y4RJ-c1y2ww-qR7oDr-9eVcVk-5VAbJk-7AR7tE-5Uej7j-7yQo9u-bpdUc2-7yQoi5-7yLATn-FSSrnR-5Z16Kw-5VSsw9-2dBNKaQ-9hSVNp-7Diu25-9hW3Cb-7yQnJC-dTHF4x\" title=\"Act Like You're my Valentine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2032\/2197049560_d6e842a33b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Act Like You're my Valentine\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the practise of sending loved ones cards on Valentine&#8217;s Day became popular in the late 18th \/ early 19th century, in the UK at least, and really took off after 1840, when postage stamps were invented. In 1868 the chocolate company Cadbury started making heart-shaped boxes of chocolates for Valentine&#8217;s Day, and the giving of chocolates quickly became popular on this day [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine's_Day\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>By the way, a nice term of affection I learnt recently in Scots is <strong>ma wee scone<\/strong> (my little scone). Have you ever heard or used this or something similar? Have you compared your loved ones to other types of food?<\/p>\n<p>Other Scottish Gaelic terms I&#8217;ve learnt recently for special days include <strong>L\u00e0 na Gogaireachd<\/strong> (April Fools&#8217; Day &#8211; 1st April) and <strong>Oidhche na Taigeise<\/strong> (Burns Night &#8211; 25th January), or literally &#8220;Night of the Haggis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>gogaireachd<\/strong> means a fool&#8217;s errand or the act of making a fool of someone. <strong>L\u00e0 na Gogaireachd<\/strong> is also translated as <strong>All Fools &#8216;Day<\/strong>, <strong>Gowk&#8217;s Day<\/strong> or <strong>Hunt-the-Gowk Day<\/strong>. A <strong>gowk<\/strong> is a cuckoo or fool in Scots and northern dialects of English. It also means to make foolish or stupefy, and comes from the Old Norse <em>gaukr<\/em> (cuckoo), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*gaukaz<\/em> (cuckoo), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b0eg\u02b0u\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (cuckoo) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gowk\">source<\/a>]. April Fools&#8217; Day is also <strong>L\u00e0 nan Amadan<\/strong> (Idiots&#8217; Day) in Scottish Gaelic.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>taigeis<\/strong> (haggis) was borrowed from the English <strong>haggis<\/strong>, which comes from the Late Middle English <em>hagis<\/em> (haggis), from <em>hag(gen)<\/em> (to chop, cut, hack), from the Old Norse <em>h\u01ebggva<\/em> (to hew), or from <em>hakken<\/em> (to chop, hack dice, mince), from the Old English <em>h\u0113awan<\/em> (to chop, hew; to dice, mince), both ultimately come from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*kewh\u2082-<\/em> (to hew; to beat, strike; to forge) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/haggis#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th February is a special day for some &#8211; Valentine&#8217;s Day, or in Scottish Gaelic L\u00e0 nam P\u00f2g (&#8220;Kissing Day&#8221;), which I think is a fun name for the day. Do any other languages have interesting names for Valentine&#8217;s Day? Apparently the practise of sending loved ones cards on Valentine&#8217;s Day became popular in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,26,33,36,44,45,55,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724","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=22724"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22736,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}