{"id":3272,"date":"2010-07-26T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2010-07-26T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:36:02","slug":"cream-and-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Cream and presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <strong>uachtar<\/strong> [&#8216;u\u0259xt\u02e0\u0259\u027e\u02e0], means &#8220;top, upper part, cream or surface (of water)&#8221; in Irish. It is used in such expressions as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>an l\u00e1mh in uachtar a fh\u00e1il (ar dhuine<\/em>) &#8211; to get the upper hand (over sb)<\/li>\n<li><em>uachtar reoite<\/em> &#8211; icecream, lit. &#8220;frozen cream&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>uachtar coipthe<\/em> (whipped cream) &#8211; <em>coipthe<\/em> is normally used to refer to a choppy sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Uachtar<\/strong> comes from the Old Irish <em>\u00faachtar<\/em> or <em>ochtar<\/em>, which have the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*eu@g<\/em> or <em>ve@g<\/em> (to rise, increase). The Irish word <em>uasal<\/em> (noble) probably comes from the same root, as do the Welsh <em>uchel<\/em> and the Breton <em>uhel<\/em>, both of which mean &#8220;high&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/uachtar#Old_Irish\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words containing the root <em>uachtar<\/em> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>uachtarach &#8211; upper, top, superior<\/li>\n<li>uachtar\u00e1n &#8211; president, superior<\/li>\n<li>uachtar\u00e1nacht &#8211; presidency, authority<\/li>\n<li>uachtarlann &#8211; creamery<\/li>\n<li>uachtar\u00fail &#8211; creamy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The President of Ireland, <em>an Uachtar\u00e1n na h\u00c9\u00edreann<\/em>, is currently here at Oideas Gael studying Irish in the same class as me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, uachtar [&#8216;u\u0259xt\u02e0\u0259\u027e\u02e0], means &#8220;top, upper part, cream or surface (of water)&#8221; in Irish. It is used in such expressions as: an l\u00e1mh in uachtar a fh\u00e1il (ar dhuine) &#8211; to get the upper hand (over sb) uachtar reoite &#8211; icecream, lit. &#8220;frozen cream&#8221; uachtar coipthe (whipped cream) &#8211; coipthe is normally used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}