{"id":6534,"date":"2022-04-27T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2023-11-26T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:03:26","slug":"nieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/04\/27\/nieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Nieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at the words for <strong>niece<\/strong> and related people in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/16122131445\/in\/album-72157667975435851\/\" title=\"Sasha and Nick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7507\/16122131445_d770e975cc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha and Nick\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>My brother and my niece<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*next\u012b<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>necht<\/strong> = niece, grand-daughter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>necht, neachd<\/strong> = niece, grand-daughter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>neacht<\/strong> [n\u0320\u02b2\u00e6xt\u032a\u02e0] = niece<br \/>\n<strong>garneacht<\/strong> = grand-niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nigh<\/strong> [n\u032ai\u02d0j] = daughter, niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*n\u0117\u03b8<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nith<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nith<\/strong> [ni\u02d0\u03b8] = niece<br \/>\n<strong>gor-nith<\/strong> = great-niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Cornish<\/th>\n<td><strong>noit<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernwec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>noit<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernwek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nith<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Breton<\/th>\n<td><strong>nith<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton<\/th>\n<td><strong>nyz, niz<\/strong> = niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nizh, nizez<\/strong> = niece<br \/>\n<strong>gou(r)nizez<\/strong> = great-niece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong> from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*n\u00e9ptih\u2082<\/em> (niece, granddaughter) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/next%C4%AB\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words in Germanic language the come from the same PIE root, via the Proto-Germanic <em>*niftiz<\/em> (female descendent, granddaughter, niece), including: <strong>Nichte<\/strong> (niece) in German, <strong>nicht<\/strong> (female cousin, niece) in Dutch, and the obsolete English word <strong>nift<\/strong> (niece) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/niftiz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>niece<\/strong> comes from the same PIE root, via the Middle English <strong>nece<\/strong> (niece, granddaughter), from the Old French <em>nece<\/em> (niece, granddaughter), from the Vulgar Latin <em>*neptia<\/em> (niece), from the Latin <em>neptis<\/em> (granddaughter) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/niece#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words for niece:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Irish<\/strong>: in\u00edon deirf\u00e9ar (sister\u2019s daughter), in\u00edon dearth\u00e1r (brother\u2019s daughter)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scottish Gaelic<\/strong>: nighean-pheathar (sister\u2019s daughter), nighean-bhr\u00e0thar (brother\u2019s daughter), ban-ogha = granddaughter, niece<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manx<\/strong>: inneen shayrey (sister\u2019s daughter), inneen vraarey (brother\u2019s daughter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/03\/24\/daughter-girl\/\">post about daughters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/ceann\">Teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dil.ie\/\">eDIL &#8211; Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/sengoidelc\/duil-belrai\/english.html\">In D\u00fail B\u00e9lrai English &#8211; Old Irish glossary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lexiconcornubrit00willuoft\/mode\/2up\">Lexicon Cornu-britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionaire Favereau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brezhoneg.bzh\/87-termofis.htm\">TermOfis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/devri.bzh\/\">Le dictionnaire diachronique du breton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic\">Etymological Dictionary Of Proto Celtic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at the words for niece and related people in Celtic languages. My brother and my niece Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Proto-Celtic *next\u012b = niece Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) necht = niece, grand-daughter Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) necht, neachd = niece, grand-daughter Irish (Gaeilge) neacht [n\u0320\u02b2\u00e6xt\u032a\u02e0] = niece garneacht = grand-niece Scottish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,81,19,20,108,61,21,3,36,22,5,6,37,7,27,8,9,10,11,12,67,13,23,98,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-dutch-nederlands","category-english","category-etymology","category-family","category-german","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-cornish","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-vulgar-latin-sermo-vulgaris","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7744,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}