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Arkan sonney<\/strong> is a Manx expression I came across today that means hedgehog, or literally “happy sucking pig”. Arkan<\/em> is a diminutive form of ark<\/em> (piglet), and sonney<\/em> means ‘affluent, lucky, fortunate, happy’, and sounds a bit like sonic, hence the little of this post.<\/p>\n Another Manx word for hedgehog is graynoge<\/em>, which is related to the Irish and Scottish Gaelic words for hedgehog: gr\u00e1inneog<\/em> and gr\u00e0ineag<\/em>. The root of these words is gr\u00e1in<\/em> (abhorrence, disgust), so they mean ‘the abhorrent\/disgusting one’. The Welsh word for hedgehog, draenog<\/em>, possibly comes from the same root.<\/p>\n According to Wikipedia<\/a>, arkan sonney<\/em>, means literally ‘lucky urchin’ or ‘plentiful pig’, and in Manx folklore it refers to a type of supernatural creature that looks like a long-haired pig. It was said that if you caught an arkan sonney<\/em> or ‘lucky piggie’, which tend to run away from people, you’ll be lucky and will find a silver piece in your pocket.<\/p>\n Sources: On-line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Irish Dictionary Online<\/a> and MacBain Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arkan sonney is a Manx expression I came across today that means hedgehog, or literally “happy sucking pig”. Arkan is a diminutive form of ark (piglet), and sonney means ‘affluent, lucky, fortunate, happy’, and sounds a bit like sonic, hence the little of this post. Another Manx word for hedgehog is graynoge, which is related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,23,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314","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=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}