{"id":56,"date":"2006-05-10T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/word-of-the-day-bean-ghluine\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T15:56:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-bean-ghluine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; bean ghl\u00faine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>bean ghl\u00faine<\/strong>, noun = midwife (lit. &#8220;kneeling woman&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>This word suggests that kneeling was once a major part of being a midwife in Ireland. Other Irish words for midwife are <em>bean chabhartha<\/em> (&#8220;helping woman&#8221;) and <em>cn\u00e1imhseach<\/em>, and midwifery is <em>cn\u00e1imhseachas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The word midwife comes from the Old English <em>mid<\/em> (with) and <em>wif<\/em> (woman). One of the Welsh words for midwife, <em>gwidwith<\/em>, perhaps comes from the same root; the other is <em>bydwraig <\/em>(&#8220;world wife&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Faoi l\u00e1thair t\u00e1 mo dheirfi\u00far a dh\u00e9anamh staid\u00e9ar ar an chnaimhseachas, agus sin \u00e9 an f\u00e1th a phioc m\u00e9 an focal seo.<\/p>\n<p>My sister is currently studying midwifery, which is why I choose this word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bean ghl\u00faine, noun = midwife (lit. &#8220;kneeling woman&#8221;) This word suggests that kneeling was once a major part of being a midwife in Ireland. Other Irish words for midwife are bean chabhartha (&#8220;helping woman&#8221;) and cn\u00e1imhseach, and midwifery is cn\u00e1imhseachas. The word midwife comes from the Old English mid (with) and wif (woman). One of [&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-56","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\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}