{"id":3693,"date":"2018-11-23T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:06:25","slug":"hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/11\/23\/hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words for hair<\/strong> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n*woltos<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\nfolt<\/strong> [fol\u0348t] = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\nfolt<\/strong> = hair, locks, tresses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\nfalt<\/strong> [fal\u032a\u02e0d] = hair, locks, ringlets, tail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\nfolt<\/strong> [folt\u032a] = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n*gwolt<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\ngwallt<\/strong> [\u0261wa\u02d0\u026ct \/ \u0261wa\u026ct] = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Cornish<\/th>\ngols<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\ngols<\/strong> [g\u0254lz] = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Breton<\/th>\nguolt<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Etymology: from Proto-Indo-European *woltos<\/em> (hair), from *welH-<\/em> (to turn, to wind) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Teanglann.ie<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\ngr\u00faac<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\ngruaig<\/strong> [\u0261\u027e\u02e0u\u0259\u025f] = hair (mass<\/em>), locks (of hair<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\ngruag<\/strong> [gru\u0259g] = hair (esp. of female<\/em>), wig, head of hair, lock of hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\ngruag<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Teanglann.ie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\nblew<\/strong> = hair, hairs, bristles, fur; small fish bones; blade of grass<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Cornish<\/th>\nbleu<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\nblew<\/strong> [bl\u025b\u02d1\u028a] = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Breton<\/th>\nbleuou<\/strong> = hair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\nblev<\/strong> = hair, bristles, fish bones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The words most commonly used for hair are: gruaig<\/em> (Irish), falt<\/em> (Scottish Gaelic), folt<\/em> (Manx), gwallt<\/em> (Welsh), gols<\/em> (Cornish), blev<\/em> (Breton).<\/p>\n

Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words for hair in Celtic languages. Proto-Celtic *woltos = hair Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) folt [fol\u0348t] = hair Irish (Gaeilge) folt = hair, locks, tresses Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) falt [fal\u032a\u02e0d] = hair, locks, ringlets, tail Manx (Gaelg) folt [folt\u032a] = hair Proto-Brythonic *gwolt = hair Welsh (Cymraeg) gwallt [\u0261wa\u02d0\u026ct \/ \u0261wa\u026ct] = hair Old Cornish gols […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,19,20,21,3,22,27,8,9,10,41,11,12,13,23,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-cornish","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-parts-of-the-body","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}