{"id":8689,"date":"2025-02-26T21:52:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:52:57","slug":"bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/02\/26\/bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post about words for <strong>bishop<\/strong>  in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ne0nicecream\/4148026600\/in\/photolist-7jxHN1-8Eyuf-bAkm1g-bbPdaF-bbPfc8-6Z34od-bbPdqD-bbPeir-b5kuun-aNv6qZ-bbPdMM-5o3LaC-3uVMPY-5ShTw4-4p2sSm-seR5JV-fwKmPU-2h7XEgU-AMdwQR-y8XUV-6thVud-8UBAZG-Cjn1nh-662qy3-2h5yRHL-b5kuC6-4q4Lte-ezxgsQ-W3Um3Z-6hvpMs-2idHQfq-k2cJy-von2DN-2deKAjP-Fkw5Zg-tg4pfj-4taVpt-PtBHZv-2nBRxd3-5L6Qb8-5PWq5D-CtVKCa-QYuzF4-4h7k1U-2atfLn1-ginv9-rPz9qq-fcQmvF-2qxgK8G-drFx9n\" title=\"bishops\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2512\/4148026600_c27bd2029e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"bishops\"\/><\/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>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>epscop<\/strong> [\u02c8ebskob] = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>epscop, espoc, escop<\/strong> = bishop, episcopus, overseer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>easpag<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0251s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259\u0261 \/ \u02c8\u00e6s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259\u0261 \/ \u02c8\u0251s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259k] = bishop<br \/>\n<strong>easpag\u00f3ideach<\/strong> = episcopal<br \/>\n<strong>easpag\u00f3ideacht<\/strong> = bishopric, episcopacy<br \/>\n<strong>ardeaspag<\/strong> = archbishop<br \/>\n<strong>ardeaspag\u00f3ideacht<\/strong> = archbishopric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>easbaig<\/strong> [esb\u026ag\u02b2] = bishop<br \/>\n<strong>easbaigeach<\/strong> [esb\u026ag\u02b2\u0259x] = episcopal<br \/>\n<strong>easbaigeachd<\/strong> [esb\u026ag\u02b2\u0259x] = episcopacy, bishop&#8217;s see, bishopric<br \/>\n<strong>\u00e0rd-easbaig \/ pr\u00ecomh-easbaig<\/strong> [a\u02d0r\u032a\u02e0d esb\u026ag\u02b2] = archbishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>aspick, aspit<\/strong> = bishop, prelate<br \/>\n<strong>aspickagh<\/strong> = bishop, diocesan, Episcopalian<br \/>\n<strong>aspickys<\/strong> = bishopric, diocese, see<br \/>\n<strong>ard-aspick<\/strong> = archbishop, primate<br \/>\n<strong>fo-aspick<\/strong> = suffragan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Brythonic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*eskob<\/strong> = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Welsh (Kembraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>escop<\/strong> = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>esgob, escip, escyp, esgyb<\/strong> = bishop, prelate, overseer<br \/>\n<strong>escobaeth, escopaeth<\/strong> = diocese, see, bishopric, episcopate<br \/>\n<strong>esgobaut, escobot, esgobot, esgobavt<\/strong> = bishopric, diocese, see, episcopacy, episcopate<br \/>\n<strong>escopty, esgobty<\/strong> = bishop&#8217;s residence or palace, cathedral church, bishopric, diocese<br \/>\n<strong>archescyp, archescop, archescyb, archesgyb, archescob<\/strong> = archbishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>esgob<\/strong> [\u02c8\u025bsk\u0254b] = bishop<br \/>\n<strong>esgob(i)aeth<\/strong> = diocese, see, bishopric, episcopate<br \/>\n<strong>esgobaethu<\/strong> = to perform the duties of a bishop<br \/>\n<strong>esgob(i)aethol<\/strong> = pertaining to a bishopric, diocesan, containing a cathedral, episcopal, episcopalian<br \/>\n<strong>esgobaidd<\/strong> = bishop-like, episcopal<br \/>\n<strong>esgobawd, esgobod<\/strong> = bishopric, diocese, see, episcopacy, episcopate<br \/>\n<strong>esgobty<\/strong> = bishop&#8217;s residence or palace, cathedral church, bishopric, diocese<br \/>\n<strong>archesgob<\/strong> = archbishop, primate, metropolitan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Cornish<\/th>\n<td><strong>escop<\/strong> = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernewec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>escop, epscop<\/strong> = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>epskop, epskobes<\/strong> = bishop<br \/>\n<strong>epskobeth<\/strong> = bishopric<br \/>\n<strong>arghepskop<\/strong> = archbishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton (Brezonec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>eskop<\/strong> = bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>eskob<\/strong> [\u02c8eskop] = bishop, plough pin<br \/>\n<strong>eskobaj<\/strong> = episcopate<br \/>\n<strong>eskobel<\/strong> = episcopal<br \/>\n<strong>eskobelezh<\/strong> = episcopacy<br \/>\n<strong>eskopti<\/strong> [es\u02c8kop.ti] = bishopric, diocese, episcopal palace<br \/>\n<strong>arc&#8217;heskob<\/strong> [ar\u02c8\u0263eskop] = archbishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from Latin <em>episcopus<\/em> (bishop, overseer), from Ancient Greek <em>\u1f10\u03c0\u03af\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (ep\u00edskopos &#8211; overseer), from <em>\u1f10\u03c0\u03af<\/em> (ep\u00ed &#8211; over) and <em>\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> (skop\u00f3s &#8211; watcher, lookout, guardian). Words from the same roots include <strong>episcopal<\/strong> in English, <strong>\u00e9v\u00eaque<\/strong> (bishop) in French, <strong>episcopo<\/strong> (bishop) in Italian,  <strong>ep\u00edscopo<\/strong> (bishop) in Portuguese, <strong>peshkop<\/strong> (bishop, bookworm) in Albanian, and  <strong>piskopos<\/strong> (bishop) in Turkish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/episcopus#Latin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>bishop<\/strong> also comes from same roots, via Middle English <em>bischop<\/em> (bishop), Old English <em>bis\u010bop<\/em> (bishop) from Proto-West-Germanic <em>*biskop<\/em> (bishop), from Vulgar Latin <em>(e)biscopus<\/em> (bishop), from Latin <em>episcopus<\/em> (bishop, overseer), etc. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bishop#English\">source<\/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=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic\">Etymological Dictionary Of Proto Celtic<\/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:\/\/dil.ie\/\">eDIL &#8211; Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/ceann\">Teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/An_Etymological_Dictionary_of_the_Gaelic_Language\">An etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionaryq.com\/gaelg\/\">Fockleyreen: Manx &#8211; English Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corpus.gaelg.im\/\">Gaelg Corpus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lexiconcornubrit00willuoft\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">Lexicon cornu-britannicum : a dictionary of the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/devri.bzh\/\">Devri : Le dictionaire diachronique du breton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionnaires bilingues de Francis Favereau \/ Edition Skol Vreizh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brezhoneg.bzh\/87-termofis.htm\">TermOfis<\/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>A post about words for bishop in Celtic languages. Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) epscop [\u02c8ebskob] = bishop Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) epscop, espoc, escop = bishop, episcopus, overseer Irish (Gaeilge) easpag [\u02c8\u0251s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259\u0261 \/ \u02c8\u00e6s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259\u0261 \/ \u02c8\u0251s\u02e0p\u02e0\u0259k] = bishop easpag\u00f3ideach = episcopal easpag\u00f3ideacht = bishopric, episcopacy ardeaspag = archbishop ardeaspag\u00f3ideacht = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,66,39,16,26,19,20,44,21,83,3,36,22,5,6,77,37,7,27,9,71,10,40,93,13,205,23,204,43,98,18,14],"tags":[206,52,80,51,207,145,48,47,53,49,209,55,50,208],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-albanian","category-ancient-greek","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaeilge-irish","category-italian-italiano","category-language","category-latin","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-english-englisch","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-cornish","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-old-welsh","category-portuguese-portugues","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-turkish-turkce","category-verbs","category-vulgar-latin-sermo-vulgaris","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words","tag-bishop","tag-breton","tag-celtic","tag-cornish","tag-episcopal","tag-etymology","tag-gaelic","tag-irish","tag-language","tag-manx","tag-origins","tag-scottish-gaelic","tag-welsh","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","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=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}