{"id":5594,"date":"2020-09-30T18:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2020-09-30T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:08:26","slug":"jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/09\/30\/jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>jays<\/strong> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>scr\u00e9ach\u00f3g<\/strong> = jay, shrill-voiced bird<br \/>\n<strong>scr\u00e9ach\u00f3g choille<\/strong> = (Eurasian) jay (<em>Garrulus glandarius<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>sgreuchag<\/strong> [s\u0261r\u02b2iaxa\u0261] = jay, nightjar, heron, gull, owl (<em>a screeching bird<\/em>); screacher, screamer; shrill woman<br \/>\n<strong>sgreuchag-choille<\/strong> [s\u0261r\u02b2iaxa\u0261 x\u0264l\u032a\u02b2\u0259] = (Eurasian) jay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>screeaghag<\/strong> = jay<br \/>\n<strong>screeaghag cheylley<\/strong> = (Eurasian) jay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>(y)sgrech<\/strong> [(\u0259)s\u02c8kre\u02d0\u03c7] = jay, starling; scream, screech, shriek<br \/>\n<strong>(y)sgrechog<\/strong> [(\u0259)s\u02c8kre\u02d0\u03c7\u0254\u0261] = jay, parrot; screaming, screeching, squealing<br \/>\n<strong>(y)sgrech y coed<\/strong> [(\u0259)s\u02c8kre\u02d0\u03c7 \u0259 k\u0254id] = (Eurasian) jay, starling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: these all mean something like \u201cscreecher \/ screamer (of the woods)\u201d.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>kegin<\/strong> = jay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>kegin-derv<\/strong> = (Eurasian) jay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postmanpetecoluk\/49591282162\/in\/photolist-2iydhsf-rdjXau-2ezFRLz-ZD62SV-2h455ep-Zt6APq-XJFiyc-33FnK9-2iE7nz1-2hToaf8-2hqNCq5-2iuD4sX-mravUK-2hUXM5c-BYDjD6-WJcHFc-igePH-GDQ3Nu-7JQ5G6-22SA7eY-YfJcr1-XPYyLY-BQstKD-2jLHWpe-274DwFa-7LcMwm-7QPKJ4-qR6Rn2-qR6VRT-K8o1oe-cWhjPw-3eRACb-dmmGLa-igeRi-eMHDSp-7HfUg-pS8eVH-e1qPmd-YGdXsG-VC1EWx-3NQtM-97584v-6k1bwX-zLyG-8uwaS1-Aqxf5A-2bpyWmd-X7FKcd-UFm5yQ-7Yx4SX\" title=\"Eurasian Jay.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49591282162_6d99eeb52a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Eurasian Jay.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceantar.org\/Dicts\/MB2\/index.html\">MacBain&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/sengoidelc\/duil-belrai\/english.html\">In D\u00fail B\u00e9lrai English &#8211; Old-Irish Glossary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/fear\">teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">On-Line Manx Dictionary<\/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=gour\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr.brezhoneg.bzh\/36-termofis.htm\">TermOfis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for jays in Celtic languages. Irish (Gaeilge) scr\u00e9ach\u00f3g = jay, shrill-voiced bird scr\u00e9ach\u00f3g choille = (Eurasian) jay (Garrulus glandarius) Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) sgreuchag [s\u0261r\u02b2iaxa\u0261] = jay, nightjar, heron, gull, owl (a screeching bird); screacher, screamer; shrill woman sgreuchag-choille [s\u0261r\u02b2iaxa\u0261 x\u0264l\u032a\u02b2\u0259] = (Eurasian) jay Manx (Gaelg) screeaghag = jay screeaghag cheylley = (Eurasian) jay Welsh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,84,16,26,19,20,21,3,22,27,23,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-nouns","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}