{"id":404,"date":"2007-06-04T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/mac-tire\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T16:34:32","slug":"mac-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; mac t\u00edre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"216\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/wolf.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>mac t\u00edre<\/strong>, noun = wolf (literally &#8216;son of the country(side)&#8217;). The t\u00edre sounds roughly like cheer-uh.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this Irish word while searching for the Scottish Gaelic for word for wolf, which someone asked me today. Another Irish word for wolf is <em>faolch\u00fa<\/em>, while the equivalent in Scottish Gaelic is <em>faol<\/em> or <em>madadh allaidh<\/em> (wild dog). In Manx a wolf is a <em>filliu<\/em> or <em>moddey oaldey<\/em> (wild dog).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some wolf-related proverbs:<\/p>\n<p>O wilku mowa, a wilk tu\u017c (Polish)<br \/>\n<em>Talk of a wolf and the wolf is here = Speak of the Devil (and he will appear).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La fame caccia il lupo dal bosco (Italian)<br \/>\n<em>Hunger drives the wolf out of the woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are many more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolves.de\/wolfsayings_e.phtml\">here<\/a>, though few of them are in their original languages, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mac t\u00edre, noun = wolf (literally &#8216;son of the country(side)&#8217;). The t\u00edre sounds roughly like cheer-uh. I came across this Irish word while searching for the Scottish Gaelic for word for wolf, which someone asked me today. Another Irish word for wolf is faolch\u00fa, while the equivalent in Scottish Gaelic is faol or madadh allaidh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}