{"id":60,"date":"2006-05-15T18:13:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/word-of-the-day-seilleann-de\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:13:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-seilleann-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day – seilleann-d\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

seilleann-d\u00e9<\/a>, noun = butterfly – (lit. “bee of God”)<\/p>\n

Related words:<\/strong>
\nseilleann-m\u00f2r – bumble bee (lit. “big bee”)
\nseilleann-nimh – hornet (lit. “poison bee”)
\nseilleann-seimhid – snail
\nseilleannach – fulls of bees, teasing, capricious<\/p>\n

There are also some interesting words for butterfly in Welsh:
\ni\u00e2r fach yr haf (lit. “summer chick”)
\ngl\u00f6yn byw (lit. “living coal”)
\npila-pala
\nbili-balo<\/p>\n

In Irish, a butterfly is a f\u00e9ileac\u00e1n<\/em> – sounds like “failure can”, and in Manx it’s foillycan<\/em> or follican<\/em> – sounds like “foily can” as in a can covered in foil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

seilleann-d\u00e9, noun = butterfly – (lit. “bee of God”) Related words: seilleann-m\u00f2r – bumble bee (lit. “big bee”) seilleann-nimh – hornet (lit. “poison bee”) seilleann-seimhid – snail seilleannach – fulls of bees, teasing, capricious There are also some interesting words for butterfly in Welsh: i\u00e2r fach yr haf (lit. “summer chick”) gl\u00f6yn byw (lit. “living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}