{"id":23530,"date":"2024-06-26T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23530"},"modified":"2024-06-26T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:52:14","slug":"new-old-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23530","title":{"rendered":"New Old Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last week in Donegal in the northwest of Ireland learning some more Irish, and learning about the area where I was, Glencolmcille (Gleann Cholm Cille in Irish). I had a great time, met some interesting people, and saw some beautiful places.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53800884675\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Gleann Cholm Cille\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53800884675_2670c26a15_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Gleann Cholm Cille\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The course I did this time is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oideas-gael.com\/en\/language-landscape\/\">Language and Landscape: The Heritage of Gleann Cholm Cille \/ Teanga agus Timpeallacht: Oidhreacht Ghleann Cholm Cille<\/a>. It involves Irish language classes in the mornings, and walks, talks, trips and other activities in afternoons and evenings. It&#8217;s run by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oideas-gael.com\/en\/#\">Oideas Gael<\/a>, an Irish language and culture centre in the southwest of Donegal which is celebrating its 40th year this year. I&#8217;ve been there for 16 of those years: every year from 2005 to 2019, and in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>In previous years I&#8217;ve done courses there in Irish language, harp and bodhr\u00e1n playing, and Irish sean-n\u00f3s singing. I always enjoy my time there, which is why I keep going back. Most of the people there were from Ireland, and there were also people from the USA, UK, France, Canada, Portugal, Austria and Russia.  <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53802804653\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Slieve League \/ Sliabh Liag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53802804653_39d116c2c5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Slieve League \/ Sliabh Liag\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, as well as practising my Irish, I got to speak other languages like French, German and Japanese. In class our teacher also taught as a few interesting words in Ulster Scots.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>gollumpus<\/strong> = an ungainly person; a large, loutish, uncoordinated person<\/li>\n<li><strong>gomeral<\/strong> = a fool, simpleton lout<\/li>\n<li><strong>glype, glipe<\/strong> = a stupid and annoying person<\/li>\n<li><strong>clart<\/strong> = mud, mire; a lump or clot of something disagreeable or distasteful; a big, dirty, untidy person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gomeral<\/strong> is a diminutive of Middle English <em>g\u014dme<\/em> (man, warrior, husband, male servant), from Old English <em>guma<\/em> (male, hero), from Proto-Germanic <em>*gum\u00f4<\/em> (man, person), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5\u02b0m\u1e53<\/em> (man, person) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gomeral\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clart<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>*clart<\/em>, from <em>biclarten<\/em> (to cover or smear with dirt) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/clart\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where the other words come from.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53800884955\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Sunset \/ Lu\u00ed na gr\u00e9ine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53800884955_3e5c7b83ef_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Sunset \/ Lu\u00ed na gr\u00e9ine\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One thing we did in class was to come up with some new proverbs in Irish. Incidentally, the Irish word for proverb is <em>seanfhocal<\/em>, which literally means &#8220;old word&#8221;. So here are a few new old words:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N\u00ed aon maitheas an chomhad a shabh\u00e1il agus an riomhaire m\u00fachta agat.<br \/>\n <em>There&#8217;s no good in saving the file when you&#8217;ve turned off the computer.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>N\u00ed l\u00e9ir\u00edonn solas an sc\u00e1ile\u00e1in bealach \u00e9inne.<br \/>\n <em>The light of the screen shows no one the way.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Is fearr traein amh\u00e1in n\u00e1 m\u00edle gluaiste\u00e1n.<br \/>\n <em>One train is better than 1,000 cars.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited-728x90.gif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last week in Donegal in the northwest of Ireland learning some more Irish, and learning about the area where I was, Glencolmcille (Gleann Cholm Cille in Irish). I had a great time, met some interesting people, and saw some beautiful places. The course I did this time is called Language and Landscape: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,116,127,129,10,13,26,33,44,45,73,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-japanese","category-language","category-language-learning","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-travel","category-ulster-scots-ullans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","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=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23534,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions\/23534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}