{"id":52,"date":"2006-05-05T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/word-of-the-day-seandalaiocht\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:16:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-seandalaiocht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; seand\u00e1la\u00edocht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/seandalaiocht.mp3\">seand\u00e1la\u00edocht<\/a>, noun = archaeology (lit. &#8220;old data  study&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words:<\/strong><br \/>\nseand\u00e1la\u00ed = archaeologist<br \/>\nseanda = old, ancient, archaic<br \/>\nseandacht = antiquity<br \/>\nseandachta\u00ed = antiquities<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent word in the other Celtic languages is:<br \/>\nManx: shenndaaleeaght<br \/>\nScottish Gaelic: \u00e0rsaidheachd<br \/>\nWelsh: hynafiaeth, archaeoleg<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently learning some more Irish with RTE&#8217;s excellent course, <em>Turas Teanga<\/em>. This week&#8217;s lesson is about education. The course is an intermediate-level one based on a popular TV series and consists of a textbook, CDs and DVDs. The textbook contains dialogues, activities, grammar notes, vocabularly and reading passages. Recordings of all the dialogues and some of the exercises can be found on the CDs.<\/p>\n<p>On the DVDs the presenter travels to a different part of Ireland in each programme, chats with various interesting people and explores a bit. There are also people acting out the situations in the dialogues, and even a mock &#8216;reality&#8217; show called &#8216;An Gr\u00e1 Faoi Ghlas&#8217; (Love Locked Away).<\/p>\n<p>For more information about <em>Turas Teanga<\/em>, see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/tv\/turasteanga\/\">http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/tv\/turasteanga\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seand\u00e1la\u00edocht, noun = archaeology (lit. &#8220;old data study&#8221;) Related words: seand\u00e1la\u00ed = archaeologist seanda = old, ancient, archaic seandacht = antiquity seandachta\u00ed = antiquities The equivalent word in the other Celtic languages is: Manx: shenndaaleeaght Scottish Gaelic: \u00e0rsaidheachd Welsh: hynafiaeth, archaeoleg I&#8217;m currently learning some more Irish with RTE&#8217;s excellent course, Turas Teanga. This week&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}