{"id":6553,"date":"2022-04-29T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T11:39:02","slug":"nephews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/04\/29\/nephews\/","title":{"rendered":"Nephews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at the words for <strong>nephew<\/strong> and related people in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/38662125374\/in\/album-72157667975435851\/\" title=\"My nephew in a hat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4643\/38662125374_ec24aa2db2_z.jpg\" alt=\"My nephew in a hat\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>My nephew. Mo nia. Mac my shayrey. Fy nai. Ma noy. Ma niz.<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*ne\u0278\u016bss<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Primitive Irish<\/th>\n<td><strong>\u1685\u1694\u1691\u1688\u1688\u1690<\/strong> (niotta) = nephew (sister\u2019s son)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nia<\/strong> [\u02c8n\u0348\u02b2i.a] = nephew, sister\u2019s son<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nia<\/strong> [n\u032a\u02b2i\u0259] = nephew<br \/>\n<strong>garneacht<\/strong> = great-nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nia<\/strong> [n\u032a\u02b2i\u0259] = nephew (sister\u2019s son)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>neear<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*nei<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Welsh<\/th>\n<td><strong>nei<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ney, nei<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>nai<\/strong> [nai\u032f] = nephew, first cousin\u2019s son<br \/>\n<strong>nai fab brawd<\/strong> = nephew (brother\u2019s son)<br \/>\n<strong>nai fab chwaer<\/strong> = nephew (sister\u2019s son)<br \/>\n<strong>mab nai<\/strong> = great-nephew<br \/>\n<strong>naigarwch<\/strong> = nepotism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish<\/th>\n<td><strong>noi<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernwek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>noy<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Breton<\/th>\n<td><strong>ny<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton<\/th>\n<td><strong>ni<\/strong> = nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>niz<\/strong> = nephew<br \/>\n<strong>gourniz<\/strong> = great-nephew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong> from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*n\u00e9p\u014dts<\/em> (grandson, descendent, nephew), possibly from  <em>*ne<\/em> (not) and <em>*p\u00f3tis<\/em> (master, lord, husband) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/ne%C9%B8%C5%ABss\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words for nephew:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Irish<\/strong>: mac deirf\u00e9ar (sister\u2019s son), mac dearth\u00e1r (brother\u2019s son)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scottish Gaelic<\/strong>: mac-peathar (sister\u2019s son), mac-br\u00e0thar (brother\u2019s son)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manx<\/strong>: mac shayrey (sister\u2019s son), mac braarey (brother\u2019s son)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/03\/17\/son\/\">post about sons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Words in Germanic language that come from the same PIE root, via the Proto-Germanic <em>*nef\u00f4<\/em> (nephew, grandson), include: <strong>Neffe<\/strong> (nephew) in German, <strong>neef<\/strong> (male cousin, nephew) in Dutch, and the obsolete English word <strong>neve<\/strong> (nephew, male cousin, grandson) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/nef%C3%B4\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>nephew<\/strong> comes from the same PIE root, via the Middle English <strong>nevew, neveu<\/strong> (nephew, grandson), the Old French <em>neveu<\/em> (nephew), and the Latin <em>nepos<\/em> (grandson, granddaughter, nephew, niece, descendent) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nephew\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/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:\/\/play.google.com\/books\/reader?id=CwUGAAAAQAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover\">Gerlyvyr Cernewec<\/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:\/\/geriafurch.bzh\/br\">Geriafurch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wales.ac.uk\/Resources\/Documents\/Research\/CelticLanguages\/EnglishProtoCelticWordList.pdf\">English &#8211; ProtoCeltic WordList<\/a> (PDF), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic\">Etymological Dictionary Of Proto Celtic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=1775355&amp;u=184793&amp;m=70611&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.shareasale.com\/image\/70611\/728x90_00.jpg\" alt=\"italki - Win cash rewards for learning any language\" width=\"630\" height=\"78\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re looking at the words for nephew and related people in Celtic languages. My nephew. Mo nia. Mac my shayrey. Fy nai. Ma noy. Ma niz. Proto-Celtic *ne\u0278\u016bss = nephew Primitive Irish \u1685\u1694\u1691\u1688\u1688\u1690 (niotta) = nephew (sister\u2019s son) Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) nia [\u02c8n\u0348\u02b2i.a] = nephew, sister\u2019s son Irish (Gaeilge) nia [n\u032a\u02b2i\u0259] = nephew garneacht [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,81,19,20,108,61,21,3,36,22,5,6,77,7,27,8,78,10,40,42,11,12,67,13,23,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6553","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-english-englisch","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-french-franceis","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-old-welsh","category-primitive-irish","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}