{"id":9094,"date":"2013-08-28T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2013-08-28T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:43:59","slug":"sgoinneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9094","title":{"rendered":"Sgoinneil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone asks you &#8216;Ciamar a tha thu?&#8217; (How are you?) in Scottish Gaelic, the standard answer is &#8216;(Tha mi) gu math&#8217; (I&#8217;m fine). An interesting alternative I learnt today is &#8216;Tha mi sgoinneil&#8217; [ha mi sg\u0264n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2al]<\/p>\n<p>The word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/Listen\/sgoinneil.mp3\"><em>sgoinneil<\/em><\/a> means &#8216;trim, well-made; careful; cool, groovy&#8217; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a> and &#8216;careful, heedful; attentive; efficacious, producing a good effect; neat, trim, tidy; decent, tasteful; energetic, active, bustling.&#8217; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwelly.info\/\">Am Faclair Dwelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just like the sound of it and will try to fit it into my Gaelic conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>neo-sgoinneil = flimsy; drabbish; idle; lacking in bodily vigour; sluggish<\/li>\n<li>sgoinnear = heedful<\/li>\n<li>m\u00ec-sgoinneil = inactive, wanting energy; silly, awkward; careless, inattentive, causing indifference or disdain; incorrect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone asks you &#8216;Ciamar a tha thu?&#8217; (How are you?) in Scottish Gaelic, the standard answer is &#8216;(Tha mi) gu math&#8217; (I&#8217;m fine). An interesting alternative I learnt today is &#8216;Tha mi sgoinneil&#8217; [ha mi sg\u0264n\u032a\u02e0\u02b2al] The word sgoinneil means &#8216;trim, well-made; careful; cool, groovy&#8217; according to Am Faclair Beag and &#8216;careful, heedful; attentive; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","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=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}