{"id":8420,"date":"2024-09-10T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:17:19","slug":"leathery-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2024\/09\/10\/leathery-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Leathery Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>leather<\/strong>, <strong>hide<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bizmac\/1213904153\/in\/photolist-N9k8uN-vQweJH-2RgzpX-gcqxJ-23d3ie7-9aahEh-bNvmsP-C8LtT-C8Mkh-5SNgVH-e3M92x-C8LUe-fCjVxV-25uow-rfrCy-2nhKKLm-t5UKn-EXB7m-WhPvdw-HzQCD-26cVnBd-66x8mi-2mLV8wC-bQT3mV-8w8tZk-2kSAMz-zRGER-bQT4JD-8wbv7d-Go5oi-7pd3kX-7pgVUW-7pgUJA-zRGT8-7pd3rK-oBstct-57pweK-4zQitJ-7pd37V-7pd3dZ-7pd46i-7pgVMm-2nhxRwo-7pgVrC-7pd3yi-7pd2RB-aC1xA-eMoc-vPFjvE-wu5HcG\" title=\"Leather\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1084\/1213904153_b7deae409c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Leather\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*(\u0278)letros<\/strong> = leather, hide<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>lethar<\/strong> = leather, skin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>lethar, leathar, lethor<\/strong> [\u02c8l\u0348\u02b2e\u03b8\u0259r] = skin, leather, hide<br \/>\n<strong>lethrad<\/strong> = leather harness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>leathar<\/strong> [\u02c8l\u0320\u02b2ah\u0259\u027e\u02e0] = skin, hide, leather<br \/>\n<strong>leathrach<\/strong> = leathern, leathery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>leathar<\/strong> [l\u032a\u02b2\u025bh\u0259r] = leather, leathery, leathern<br \/>\n<strong>leatharach<\/strong> [l\u032a\u02b2\u025bh\u0259r\u0259x] = leathery, like leather, coriaceous<br \/>\n<strong>leathrachail<\/strong> [l\u032a\u02b2\u025br\u0259xal] = leathery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>l(h)iare<\/strong> (n.) = leather, leather equipment, strop<br \/>\n<strong>l(h)iareagh<\/strong> (adj.) = leather, leathern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*lledr<\/strong> = leather<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>lledyr, lledr<\/strong> = leather, parchment, vellum, skin, hide<br \/>\n<strong>lletrin<\/strong> = made of leather or hide, leathern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>lledr<\/strong> [\u026c\u025bdr\/\u02c8\u026ce\u02d0d\u025br] = leather, parchment, vellum, skin, hide<br \/>\n<strong>lledro, lledru<\/strong> = to cover with leather, become leathery<br \/>\n<strong>lledraidd<\/strong> = leathery, tough, coriaceous<br \/>\n<strong>lledrin<\/strong> = made of leather or hide, leathern<br \/>\n<strong>lledrwr, lledrydd<\/strong> = leather manufacturer, leather merchant, tanner, currier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ledher<\/strong> = leather<br \/>\n<strong>ledhrek<\/strong> = leathery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Breton (Brethonoc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>ledr<\/strong> = leather<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton (Brezonec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>lezr<\/strong> = leather<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>l\u00ear\/ler<\/strong> [l\u025b\u02d0r] = leather<br \/>\n<strong>l\u00earan, l\u00eara\u00f1<\/strong> = to garnish with leather<br \/>\n<strong>l\u00earek<\/strong> [\u02c8l\u025b\u02d0rek] = tough<br \/>\n<strong>l\u00earenn<\/strong> = strap, belt<br \/>\n<strong>l\u00earennan, l\u00earenna\u00f1<\/strong> = to garnish with strips, to tan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from Proto-Indo-European <em>*letrom<\/em> (leather), or from PIE <em>*p\u00e9l-tro-m<\/em>, from <em>*pel-<\/em> (to cover, wrap; skin, hide, cloth). Words for leather and related things in Germanic languages, such as <strong>leather<\/strong> in English, <strong>Leder<\/strong> in German, <strong>leer<\/strong> in Dutch, were possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic <em>*(\u0278)letros<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/letros\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE root include <strong>fell<\/strong> (skin, hide, pelt), <strong>film<\/strong>, <strong>pall<\/strong> and <strong>pelt<\/strong> in English; <strong>vel<\/strong> (skin, hide, fur, pelt) in Dutch; <strong>fj\u00e4ll<\/strong> ([fish \/ reptile] scale) in Swedish; <strong>piel<\/strong> (skin, fur) in Spanish, and <strong>peau<\/strong> (skin, hide, fur) in French [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/pel-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>For other words for <strong>skin<\/strong>, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/09\/11\/surfaces\/\">Surfaces<\/a> post on the Celtiadur.<\/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\/browse?field_word_value=penn\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/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=\"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<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for leather, hide and related things in Celtic languages. Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Proto-Celtic *(\u0278)letros = leather, hide Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) lethar = leather, skin Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) lethar, leathar, lethor [\u02c8l\u0348\u02b2e\u03b8\u0259r] = skin, leather, hide lethrad = leather harness Irish (Gaeilge) leathar [\u02c8l\u0320\u02b2ah\u0259\u027e\u02e0] = skin, hide, leather leathrach = leathern, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,81,19,20,44,61,21,3,22,5,37,7,27,8,10,11,12,13,23,82,64,43,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-breton","category-dutch-nederlands","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish-espanol","category-swedish-svenska","category-verbs","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}