{"id":4154,"date":"2019-03-16T19:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2020-02-22T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:00:24","slug":"woman-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/03\/16\/woman-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman \/ Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words for woman \/ wife<\/strong> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n*ben\u0101<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gaulish<\/th>\nben\u0101<\/strong> = woman, wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\nben<\/strong> [b\u02b2en] = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\nbean<\/strong> [b\u02b2an\u02e0] = woman, wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\nbean<\/strong> [b\u025bn] = woman, wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\nben<\/strong> = woman, lady, wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n*ben<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Welsh<\/th>\nben<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\nbenyw<\/strong> = female, girl, woman, feminine
\nmenyw<\/strong> = woman, female, feminine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Cornish<\/th>\nbenen<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\nbenyn<\/strong> [‘b\u025bn\u026an \/ ‘b\u025bn\u0259n] = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Breton<\/th>\nban<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\ne-ben<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Etymology<\/strong>
\nFrom the Proto-Indo-European *g\u02b7\u1e17n<\/em> (woman) [source<\/a>], which is also the root of the English words queen<\/strong> and gyne<\/strong>cology, words for woman in some other Germanic languages, such as kvinna<\/strong> in Swedish, and words for woman \/ wife in Slavic languages, such as \u017eena<\/strong> in Czech.<\/p>\n

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

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, teanglann.ie<\/a>, On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n*wrakk\u0101<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\nfrac<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n*gwr\u0117g<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0261wre\u031d\u02d0\u0261] = woman, (human) female, wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\ngureic, gwreic<\/strong> = wife, woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\ngwraig<\/strong> [\u0261u\u02c8rai\u032f\u0261] = wife, woman, (human) female<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Cornish<\/th>\ngreg, grueg<\/strong> = wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middle Cornish<\/th>\ngurek<\/strong> = wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\ngwreg<\/strong> [gwr\u025b:g \/ gwre:g] = wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Middle Breton<\/th>\ngruec<\/strong> = wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\ngwreg<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0261w\u0281\u025b\u02d0k] = wife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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

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

Words for woman \/ wife in Celtic languages. Proto-Celtic *ben\u0101 = woman Gaulish ben\u0101 = woman, wife Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) ben [b\u02b2en] = woman Irish (Gaeilge) bean [b\u02b2an\u02e0] = woman, wife Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) bean [b\u025bn] = woman, wife Manx (Gaelg) ben = woman, lady, wife Proto-Brythonic *ben = woman Old Welsh ben = woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,75,19,20,25,21,3,22,7,27,8,9,10,40,11,12,13,23,64,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-czech-cestina","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaulish","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-cornish","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-old-welsh","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish-svenska","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}