{"id":7654,"date":"2023-10-28T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2023-10-29T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:34:49","slug":"hiding-concealment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2023\/10\/28\/hiding-concealment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding &#038; Concealment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>hide<\/strong>, <strong>conceal<\/strong> and related words in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/qmnonic\/186936228\/in\/photolist-hw6Cq-5gDBE8-MtvyB6-2kca3VW-inEQ1p-2nuUjco-qF3U-pj4gv-93rxz8-4tadQM-7uT1rC-2oGSjcW-dQk7L-2h1Kb5h-JZyAsD-9RMyTs-ckD4cq-2Pt8y-8KbHra-MhGCPP-7CqR6j-4HPjC6-2ojxHNs-Jn3C34-9iZYnw-45JZd-BH5s8a-8n2Jam-GoZcUC-2hRbtXV-3oGfYP-6PTjvR-wPFwrF-bWnYB1-cpVv63-dD2iAs-evhjZ-4uGkdq-kLu32s-2oHXeFn-7ZWjbT-2fBhthQ-aAK3m6-c5z3EL-bS3XFP-8rs3ZU-9h3qhs-2jJgtSV-dNN2y-9wACy2\" title=\"hiding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/71\/186936228_54ce1cd8c7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"hiding\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words marked * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*kelo-<\/strong> = to hide<br>\n<strong>*keleti<\/strong> = to hide, conceal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go&iacute;delc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ceilid<\/strong> = to hide, conceal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ceilid<\/strong> = to hide, conceal, admit, allow, concede, withhold, hoard, suppress, destroy<br>\n<strong>ceilt<\/strong> = act of hiding, concealing, suppressing<br>\n<strong>cel<\/strong> = concealment, dissolution, extinction, death<br>\n<strong>celt<\/strong> = covering, garment, clothing<br>\n<strong>celtair<\/strong> = concealment, covering, garment, cloak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ceil<\/strong> [k&#603;l&#690;] = to conceal, suppress, withhold<br>\n<strong>ceileantas<\/strong> = concealment, secrecy<br>\n<strong>ceileatram<\/strong> = disguise, veneer<br>\n<strong>ceilt<\/strong> = concealment, withholding, denial<br>\n<strong>ceilteanas<\/strong> = concealment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G&agrave;idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ceil<\/strong> [k&#690;el] = concealment, death (<em>archaic<\/em>)<br>\n<strong>ceileadh<\/strong> [k&#690;el&#601;&#611;] =(act of) concealing, hiding<br>\n<strong>ceilear<\/strong> [k&#690;el&#601;r] = concealer, someone who hides, screener<br>\n<strong>ceilt<\/strong> [k&#690;eld&#690;] = concealment<br>\n<strong>ceilte<\/strong> [k&#690;eld&#690;&#601;] = concealed, hidden<br>\n<strong>ceilteach<\/strong> [k&#690;eld&#690;&#601;x] = concealing, reserved<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>keill<\/strong> = to hide<br>\n<strong>keiltyn<\/strong> = to coneal, cover (up), disguies, hide, shelter; concealment, dissimulation, suppression<br>\n<strong>keiltynys<\/strong> = camouflage, furtiveness, hiding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*kel&#616;d<\/strong> =<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>c&ecirc;l, cel<\/strong> = hiding, concealment, shelter<br>\n<strong>kelv, kelu, kely<\/strong> = to hide, conceal<br>\n<strong>celadwy, keladwy<\/strong> = hidden, concealed, private, secret<br>\n<strong>keledic<\/strong> = hidden, concealed, secret<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>c&ecirc;l<\/strong> [k&#603;&#720;l\/ke&#720;l] = hiding, concealment, shelter, bower, hidden, secret<br>\n<strong>celaf, celu<\/strong> [&#712;k&#603;l&#616;&#798;\/&#712;ke&#720;li\/&#712;k&#603;li] = to hide, conceal, keep secret<br>\n<strong>celadwy<\/strong> = hidden, concealed, private, secret<br>\n<strong>celdy<\/strong> = bower, arbour<br>\n<strong>celedig<\/strong> = hidden, concealed, secret, dissembled<br>\n<strong>celedigaeth<\/strong> = concealment, secrecy<br>\n<strong>celedd<\/strong> = secretiveness, caution<br>\n<strong>datgelaf, datgelu<\/strong> = to reveal, detect, blab, solve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernewec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>celes, celys, kelys<\/strong> = to conceal, hide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>kel<\/strong> = hidden, secret<br>\n<strong>keles<\/strong> = to conceal, hide<br>\n<strong>keles ha kavos<\/strong> = hide-and-seek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*&#7729;&eacute;leti<\/em> (to be covering, hiding), from <em>*&#7729;el-<\/em> (to cover) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/keleti\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/09\/01\/cells-and-churches\/\">cell and church<\/a> in Celtic languages, <strong>cell<\/strong>, <strong>cellar<\/strong>, <strong>clandestine<\/strong>, <strong>conceal<\/strong>, <strong>hall<\/strong>, <strong>hell<\/strong>, <strong>helmet<\/strong> and <strong>occult<\/strong> in English, and the name <strong>William<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/%E1%B8%B1el-#Proto-Indo-European:_cover\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words such as <strong>Celt<\/strong> and <strong>Celtic<\/strong>, and their equivalents in other languages possibly come from the same Proto-Celtic roots, via the French <strong>celtique<\/strong> (Celtic), Latin <em>Celtae<\/em> (the Celts) and the Greek <em>&Kappa;&epsilon;&lambda;&tau;&omicron;&#943;<\/em> (Kelto&iacute;) \/ <em>&Kappa;&#941;&lambda;&tau;&alpha;&iota;<\/em> (K&eacute;ltai), which is what Herodotus called the Gauls. They might have originally meant something like &lsquo;descendents of the hidden one (the underworld deity)&rsquo;, and according to Julius Caesar, the Gauls claimed descent from an underworld god [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Celtae\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Breton, <strong>kuzh<\/strong> means secret and confidential, and <strong>kuzhat<\/strong> means to hide. They are cognate with the Welsh words <strong>cudd<\/strong> (concealment, secrecy) and <strong>cuddio<\/strong> (to hide, conceal), and the Cornish words <strong>kudh<\/strong> (concealed, hidden, secret) and <strong>kudha<\/strong> (to conceal, hide). See the Celtiadur post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/01\/13\/mysterious-secrets\/\">Mysterious Secrets<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/create.blubrry.com\/resources\/podcast-media-hosting\/?code=omniglot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_blubrry.png\" alt=\"Blubrry podcast hosting\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/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 &ndash; Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/sengoidelc\/duil-belrai\/english.html\">In D&uacute;il B&eacute;lrai English &ndash; 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>Words for hide, conceal and related words in Celtic languages. Words marked * are reconstructions. Proto-Celtic *kelo- = to hide *keleti = to hide, conceal Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) ceilid = to hide, conceal Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) ceilid = to hide, conceal, admit, allow, concede, withhold, hoard, suppress, destroy ceilt = act of hiding, concealing, suppressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,19,20,44,25,3,36,22,5,6,37,7,27,10,11,12,13,23,43,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-breton","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaulish","category-language","category-latin","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-verbs","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7664,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}