{"id":4225,"date":"2019-04-06T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2019-04-06T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T17:48:40","slug":"old-woman-crone-hag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/04\/06\/old-woman-crone-hag\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Woman, Crone, Hag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>old woman, crone, hag<\/strong> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>caillech<\/strong> = nun, housekeeper, elderly woman, crone, hag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>cailleach<\/strong> = nun, old woman; hag; precocious girl; spineless fellow, coward; spent, shrivelled, thing; stump; truss, bundle (of straw)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>cailleach<\/strong> [ka\u028e\u0259x] = old lady, old woman; old biddy, hag; her indoors, the wife, the old lady; landlady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>caillagh<\/strong> = witch, crone, old woman, single woman; glaucous gull<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from the Old Irish <em>caille<\/em> (veil), from the Latin <em>pallium<\/em> (cloak, coverlet) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cailleach#Irish&quot;\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cailleach#Irish\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/cailleach\">teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*wrakk\u0101<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>frac<\/strong> = woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>gwrach<\/strong> = ugly old woman, crone, hag, witch, sorceress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Cornish<\/th>\n<td><strong>gruah<\/strong> = old woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>gwragh<\/strong> [gwra:x \/ gwr\u00e6:h] = hag, witch, wrasse (fish), woodlouse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>gwrac&#8217;h<\/strong> = old woman, witch, fairy, mermaid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/frac#Old_Irish\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wales.ac.uk\/Resources\/Documents\/Research\/CelticLanguages\/ProtoCelticEnglishWordlist.pdf\">Proto-Celtic English Word List<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/browse?field_word_value=gwragh\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for old woman, crone, hag in Celtic languages. Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) caillech = nun, housekeeper, elderly woman, crone, hag Irish (Gaeilge) cailleach = nun, old woman; hag; precocious girl; spineless fellow, coward; spent, shrivelled, thing; stump; truss, bundle (of straw) Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) cailleach [ka\u028e\u0259x] = old lady, old woman; old biddy, hag; her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,19,20,21,3,36,22,27,9,10,12,23,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-gaelg-manx","category-nouns","category-old-cornish","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-celtic","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}