{"id":3890,"date":"2018-12-15T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2018-12-16T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T12:04:12","slug":"to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/12\/15\/to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words for to die<\/strong> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n*marwos<\/strong> = dead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\nmarb<\/strong> = dead; mortified, insensible, spiritually dead; stagnant (water<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\nmarbh<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u02e0\u0251\u027e\u02e0\u0259v\u02e0 \/ \u02c8m\u02e0ar\u02e0u\u02d0 \/ \u02c8m\u02e0ar\u02e0u] = dead person, dead, inert, exhausted, inactive, motionless, slack, idle, unused<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\nmarbh<\/strong> [marav] = dead, lifeless; dull; benumbed, torpid; vapid, tasteless; to kill, murder, assassinate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\nmarroo<\/strong> = to kill, kill off, dispatch, murder, assassinate, slaughter, liquidate, butcher, slay, exterminate, bag (game); dead, lifeless, inanimate, glassy (look<\/em>), muggy, dull (pain<\/em>), dud, dull, stagnant, defunct, mortified, slaughtered, departed, deceased, killed, extinct<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\nmarw<\/strong> [\u02c8marw] = to die<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\nmarw<\/strong> = to die, expire, cease to exist, vanish, fade away<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\nmerwel<\/strong> [‘m\u025brw\u025bl \/ ‘m\u025brw\u0250l] = to die, decease, pass away, go out (light<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middle Breton<\/th>\nmarf \/ maru<\/strong> = to die<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\nmervel<\/strong> = to die, turn off, switch off, go out, become insensitive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Etymology<\/strong>: from the Proto-Indo-European *mer-<\/em> (to die), which is also the root of the English words mare<\/strong>, as in nightmare, and murder<\/strong> [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Teaglann.ie<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\nb\u00e1saigh <\/strong>= to die, put to death, execute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\nb\u00e0saich<\/strong> [ba\u02d0s\u026a\u00e7] = to die, perish, starve, wither<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\ngeddyn baase<\/strong> = to die, perish, decease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Etymology<\/strong>: from the Irish b\u00e1s<\/em> (death), from the Proto-Celtic *b\u0101stom \/ b\u0101ssom<\/em> (death), from Proto-Indo-European *g\u02b7eh\u2082-<\/em> (to go) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Teaglann.ie<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words for to die in Celtic languages. Proto-Celtic *marwos = dead Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) marb = dead; mortified, insensible, spiritually dead; stagnant (water) Irish (Gaeilge) marbh [\u02c8m\u02e0\u0251\u027e\u02e0\u0259v\u02e0 \/ \u02c8m\u02e0ar\u02e0u\u02d0 \/ \u02c8m\u02e0ar\u02e0u] = dead person, dead, inert, exhausted, inactive, motionless, slack, idle, unused Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) marbh [marav] = dead, lifeless; dull; benumbed, torpid; vapid, tasteless; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,19,20,21,3,22,10,11,12,13,23,43,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","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\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}