{"id":5511,"date":"2011-07-19T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:27:37","slug":"yn-chruinnaght","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Yn Chruinnaght"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m in the Isle of Man for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynchruinnaght.com\/\">Yn Chruinnaght<\/a> (&#8216;the gathering&#8217;), the Manx National and Inter-Celtic Festival. Yesterday I heard some Scottish Gaelic and odd bits of Manx at a fantastic concert featuring Capercaille and a bunch of local musicians (David Kilgallon and Some Thoroughly Nice Folk), and expect to hear all the other Celtic languages while I&#8217;m here as performers and visitors from all the Celtic lands are here for the festival.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>cruinnaght<\/strong> means &#8216;assembly, function, gathering, event&#8217; and is used in such expressions as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; cruinnaght skeerey &#8211; parish gathering<br \/>\n&#8211; Cruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh &#8211; Manx National Assembly<br \/>\n&#8211; cruinnaght-vooar &#8211; mass meeting<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, cruinnaght acquires an extra h after yn (the) because it&#8217;s feminine and the initial letters of feminine nouns usually mutate after the definite article, in the singular at least. This is a peculiarity shared by all the Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>The verb form of cruinnaght is <strong>cruinnaghey<\/strong>, which means &#8216;to gather, huddle, troop, enclose, beseige, raise, round, head, screw up, sum up, focus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">Online Manx Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I&#8217;m in the Isle of Man for Yn Chruinnaght (&#8216;the gathering&#8217;), the Manx National and Inter-Celtic Festival. Yesterday I heard some Scottish Gaelic and odd bits of Manx at a fantastic concert featuring Capercaille and a bunch of local musicians (David Kilgallon and Some Thoroughly Nice Folk), and expect to hear all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,127,10,23,56,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-scottish-gaelic","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}