{"id":3394,"date":"2018-10-12T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2024-06-05T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:10:54","slug":"blue-green-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/12\/blue-green-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue \/ Green \/ Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>blue<\/strong>, <strong>green<\/strong>, <strong>grey<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/53164486691\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Pont y Borth \/ Menai Bridge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53164486691_2bcfc7ce56_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Pont y Borth \/ Menai Bridge\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*glastos<\/strong> = green, blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Gaulish<\/th>\n<td><strong>*glastom<\/strong> = green, blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> [\u0261las] = green, greenish (<em>esp of growing things<\/em>); blue, green-blue, grey-blue; metallic (<em>colour<\/em>); ice\/frost colour; grey; wan (<em>complexion<\/em>); bluish, livid, discolored; faded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> = green, greenish (<em>esp of growing things<\/em>), blue, greenish blue, greyish blue, wan (<em>complexion<\/em>), livid, discoloured, faded (<em>of garments<em>)<br \/>\n<strong>glasaid<\/strong> = to grow pale or livid, to become yellow, to make green<br \/>\n<strong>glase<\/strong> = greenness, blueness, steel-colour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> [\u0261l\u02e0as\u02e0] = green (<em>grass, politics<\/em>), grey (<em>horses, cloth, eyes<\/em>), blue, pale, pallid, immature, unseasoned, raw inexperienced<br \/>\n<strong>glasaigh<\/strong> = to become green, sickly, grey, raw or chill, to make green<br \/>\n<strong>glasra<\/strong> = green, garden, stuff, vegetable, vegetation<br \/>\n<strong>glasrach\u00e1n<\/strong> = pale, sickly-looking, person.<br \/>\n<strong>glasta<\/strong> = shiny, glossy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> [gl\u032a\u02e0as] = grey-green, pale, wan, sallow, green, unripe<br \/>\n<strong>glasadh, glasachadh<\/strong> = greying, dawning<br \/>\n<strong>glasail<\/strong> [gl\u032a\u02e0asal] = greyish, pale, wan<br \/>\n<strong>glasraich<\/strong> [\u0261l\u032a\u02e0asr\u026a\u00e7] = vegetable(s), greens<br \/>\n<strong>glasraichear<\/strong> [\u0261l\u032a\u02e0asr\u026a\u00e7\u0259r] = vegeratian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glass<\/strong> = green (<em>of nature<\/em>), verdant, soft, pale, pasty, ashen (<em>colour<\/em>), grey (<em>of animal<\/em>), raw, unfledged, sappy, callow (<em>of youth<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong>glassrey<\/strong> = vegetable, to vegetate<br \/>\n<strong>glassoil<\/strong> = greenish<br \/>\n<strong>glassaghey<\/strong> = greying, pale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*glas<\/strong> = green, blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas, gl\u00e2s<\/strong> = blue, greenish blue, sea-green<br \/>\n<strong>glasu, glassu<\/strong> = to (turn) pale, turn grey, burnish, polish<br \/>\n<strong>glas\u1efdellt, glaswellt<\/strong> = grass, green grass or pasture<br \/>\n<strong>glaswyn, glaswen<\/strong> = light blue, pale blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> [\u0261la\u02d0s] = blue, azure, sky-blue, greenish blue, sea-green, green, grass-coloured, bluish green, verdant, unripe (<em>of fruit<\/em>), greyish-blue, slate-coloured, livid, pallid, pale, grey, silver<br \/>\n<strong>glasaf, glasu<\/strong> = to (turn) pale, turn grey, burnish, polish<br \/>\n<strong>glasddu<\/strong> = dark blue, deep blue, violet<br \/>\n<strong>glasgoch<\/strong> = blue tinged with red, purple, violet, puce<br \/>\n<strong>glaswellt<\/strong> = grass, green grass pr pasture<br \/>\n<strong>glaswelltir<\/strong> = glassland, pasture<br \/>\n<strong>glaswyn<\/strong> = light blue, pale blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernewec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas, gl\u00e2s<\/strong> =  blue, azure, sky coloured, gray, ash coloured, verdant, green<br \/>\n<strong>glase<\/strong> =  to become blue, to grow pale, to be green, to flourish<br \/>\n<strong>glasygyon<\/strong> =  a green, green plot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> [\u0261la:z \/\u0261l\u00e6:z] =  blue, green, grey, sea colour<br \/>\n<strong>glasdu<\/strong> = dark blue<br \/>\n<strong>glasik<\/strong> = blueish<br \/>\n<strong>glasneth<\/strong> = vegetation, uncultivated land<br \/>\n<strong>glasrudh<\/strong> = blueish purple, purple, violet<br \/>\n<strong>glaswr, glaswyrdh<\/strong> = sea green, turquiose<br \/>\n<strong>glaswyn<\/strong> = light blue, sky blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton (Brezonec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas<\/strong> = blue, green, azure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>glas\/glaz<\/strong> [\u0261l\u0251\u02d0s] = blue, green (<em>nature<\/em>), grey (<em>horse<\/em>), raw &amp; salty, fresh, bitter, pale<br \/>\n<strong>glasaat<\/strong> = to green, freshen up<br \/>\n<strong>glasded<\/strong> = greenness<br \/>\n<strong>glasdu<\/strong> = dark blue<br \/>\n<strong>glasvez<\/strong> = greenery<br \/>\n<strong>glaswenn<\/strong> = light blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table\n\n<strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5\u02b0l\u0325h\u2083st\u00f3s<\/em>, from <em>*\u01f5\u02b0elh\u2083-<\/em> (to flourish, green, yellow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/glastos\">source<\/a>]. Words from the same roots include <strong>chlorine<\/strong>, <strong>gall<\/strong>, <strong>gild<\/strong>, <strong>glow<\/strong>, <strong>gold<\/strong>, <strong>yellow<\/strong> in English, <strong>gul<\/strong> (yellow) in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/02\/22\/clean-pure\/\">clean and pure<\/a> and words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/09\/white\/\">white, bright and fawn<\/a> in Celtic languages [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/%C7%B5%CA%B0elh%E2%82%83-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/ceann\">Teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dil.ie\/\">eDIL &#8211; Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/sengoidelc\/duil-belrai\/english.html\">In D\u00fail B\u00e9lrai English &#8211; Old Irish glossary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/browse?field_word_value=penn\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionaire Favereau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brezhoneg.bzh\/87-termofis.htm\">TermOfis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wales.ac.uk\/Resources\/Documents\/Research\/CelticLanguages\/EnglishProtoCelticWordList.pdf\">English &#8211; ProtoCeltic WordList<\/a> (PDF), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic\">Etymological Dictionary Of Proto Celtic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for blue, green, grey and related things in Celtic languages. Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Proto-Celtic *glastos = green, blue Gaulish *glastom = green, blue Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) glas [\u0261las] = green, greenish (esp of growing things); blue, green-blue, grey-blue; metallic (colour); ice\/frost colour; grey; wan (complexion); bluish, livid, discolored; faded Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,38,26,63,19,20,25,21,3,22,5,6,37,7,113,27,10,11,12,13,23,64,43,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-breton","category-colours","category-kernewek-cornish","category-danish-dansk","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaulish","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-norwegian-norsk","category-nouns","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish-svenska","category-verbs","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8216,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/8216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}