{"id":3507,"date":"2018-10-23T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2024-04-01T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:35:15","slug":"purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/23\/purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>purple<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brent\/71068472\/in\/photolist-7hfbu-eicGfE-2pgtLw-ais2MV-aGuL6M-5qKcJu-4Mnbwu-8Lc5s5-2xzYd-BYQa-83kLqt-5rCC7B-5sNHQC-at42Cw-9DRQK7-DTZ5Cx-7XazSG-cA9RV-fh7YEW-9v9Knf-5u55ih-gmCXU-9G46qe-zB3xnq-6PTgEk-9ABwem-z7aM-a1WnXA-9P12N-hmoKEM-eWWsFf-6wufyZ-6LKJte-5asU1E-zizq9-58eXx6-2qHLw-39xjKc-5jdTTY-81SPNP-JdmS1-5eVMs-bBm5ih-geNpAa-F2Vgu-6CGADX-77AAKZ-ok8Kq-iTqwF-5TWssf\" title=\"Purple\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/34\/71068472_593fefb889_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Purple\"\/><\/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<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>corcarda<\/strong> = purple, crimson<br \/>\n<strong>corcair<\/strong> = purple \/ crimson dye, murex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle  Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>corcarda, corcra<\/strong> = purple, crimson<br \/>\n<strong>purpuir<\/strong> = purple, crimson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>corcra<\/strong> = purple<br \/>\n<strong>corcraigh<\/strong> = purple, crimson, bloody<br \/>\n<strong>corcair<\/strong> = a kind of purple dye<br \/>\n<strong>corcairdhearg<\/strong> = crimson<br \/>\n<strong>corcairghorm<\/strong> = violet<br \/>\n<strong>purpair<\/strong> = purple, purple cloth<br \/>\n<strong>purpal<\/strong> = purple<br \/>\n<strong>purparaigh<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>corcar<\/strong> [k\u0254r\u032a\u02e0xg\u0259r] = purple; any lichen yielding a purple dye<br \/>\n<strong>corcra<\/strong> [k\u0254rxgr\u0259] = purple, crimson<br \/>\n<strong>corcarach<\/strong> [k\u0254rxgr\u0259x] = purple, crimson<br \/>\n<strong>corcaire<\/strong> [k\u0254rxg\u026ar\u02b2] = make\/dye purple<br \/>\n<strong>corcradh<\/strong> [k\u0254rxgr\u0259\u0263] = making\/dying purple<br \/>\n<strong>purpaidh<\/strong> [purb\u026a] = purple<br \/>\n<strong>purpar<\/strong> [purb\u0259r] = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>purple<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*porfor<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>porfor, porffor, porphor<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>porffor<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u0254rf\u0254r] = purple, puce, violet, red, crimson, scarlet, clad in purple, royal, imperial<br \/>\n<strong>porffori, porffora(f)<\/strong> = to become\/turn purple or crimson<br \/>\n<strong>porfforaid<\/strong> = purple (coloured), purplish, clad in purple<br \/>\n<strong>purpur<\/strong> = purple, scarlet, red, purple cloth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernewec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>purpur<\/strong> = purple, purple robe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>purpur<\/strong> [&#8216;p\u028frp\u028fr \/ &#8216;p\u0259rp\u0259r] = purple, violet<br \/>\n<strong>purpurwyn<\/strong> = light purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton (Brezonec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>pourp, pourpr<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>pourpr\u00e9<\/strong> = purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from Latin <em>purpura<\/em> (purple), from Ancient Greek <em>\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03cd\u03c1\u03b1<\/em> [por.p\u02b0\u00fd.ra\u02d0] (purple-fish  (<em>Hexaplex trunculus<\/em>), purple dye from that fish). The English word <strong>purple<\/strong> comes from the same roots, as do words for purple in various other European languages [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/purpura#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec )<\/th>\n<td><strong>ehoec<\/strong> = heather-colour(ed), purple, green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>eh\u00f6eg<\/strong> = heather-colour(ed), purple, green, green colour<br \/>\n<strong>hoeg<\/strong> = green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table\n\n<strong>Etymology<\/strong>: possibly from <em>*oec<\/em> (heather) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK558255\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words for purple in Welsh include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>piws<\/strong> [p\u026au\u032fs] (puce, [reddish] purple). It comes from the English <strong>puce<\/strong> (brownish-purple, deep red), from French <strong>puce<\/strong> (flea), from Latin <em>p\u016blicem<\/em> (flea), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*pl\u00fasis<\/em> (flea), which is also the root of the English word <strong>flea<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/piws#Welsh\">source<\/a>].<\/li>\n<li><strong>cochlas<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u0254\u03c7las] (purple, reddish blue), from <strong>coch<\/strong> (red) and <strong>glas<\/strong> (blue\/green) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cochlas#Welsh\">source<\/a>].<\/li>\n<li><strong>glasgoch<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0261las\u0261\u0254\u03c7] (purple, bluish red), from <strong>glas<\/strong> (blue\/green) and <strong>coch<\/strong> (red) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/glasgoch#Welsh\">source<\/a>].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other words for purple in Manx are <strong>gorrym jiarg<\/strong> and <strong>jiarg gorrym<\/strong>, and purpleness is <strong>gorrym jiargid<\/strong>.<\/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 purple and related things in Celtic languages. Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) corcarda = purple, crimson corcair = purple \/ crimson dye, murex Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) corcarda, corcra = purple, crimson purpuir = purple, crimson Irish (Gaeilge) corcra = purple corcraigh = purple, crimson, bloody corcair = a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39,16,38,26,19,20,44,21,3,36,22,5,6,37,7,27,10,11,13,23,43,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-ancient-greek","category-breton","category-colours","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-verbs","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}