{"id":2079,"date":"2022-07-22T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:16:27","slug":"celtic-pathways-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; People\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-07-22T17:16:25+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for person, human and related things.\n\n\n\nIn Proto-Celtic a word for person was *gdonyos, which comes from the Proto-Indo-European *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0om-yo- (earthling, human), from *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0\u014dm (earth, human) [source].\n\nDescende...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3615\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2079-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2079-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"pobl.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for <strong>person<\/strong>, <strong>human<\/strong> and related things.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/51245440107\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Fem Fest\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245440107_82621d84bf_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fem Fest\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Proto-Celtic a word for person was <strong>*gdonyos<\/strong>, which comes from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0om-yo-<\/em> (earthling, human), from <em>*d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0\u014dm<\/em> (earth, human) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/gdonyos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>duine<\/strong> [\u02c8d\u032a\u02e0\u026an\u02b2\u0259] = human, man, mankind, person in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>duine<\/strong> [d\u026fn\u032a\u02b2\u0259] = fellow, person, man, husband in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>dooinney<\/strong> [\u02c8d\u032au\u02d0n\u02b2\u0259] = human, man, fellow, husband in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>dyn<\/strong> [d\u0268\u02d0n \/ di\u02d0n] = man, human being; person, and <strong>dynes<\/strong> [\u02c8d\u0259n\u025bs] = woman in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>den<\/strong> [d\u025b:n \/ de:n] = man, guy, human, person in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>den<\/strong> [\u02c8d\u1ebd\u02d0n] = human being, person, man, husband in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another Proto-Celitc word from the same PIE root is <strong>*gd\u016b<\/strong> (place), which became <strong>d\u00fa<\/strong> (place, inheritance; native, natural, proper, fitting) in Modern Irish, <strong>d\u00f9th<\/strong> (natural, hereditary, proper, fit, suitable) in Scottish Gaelic, and <strong>dooie<\/strong> (complement, inherent, natural, patriotic) in Manx [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/gd%C5%AB\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same PIE root include: <strong>human<\/strong>, <strong>humus<\/strong>, bride<strong>groom<\/strong> in English; <strong>goom<\/strong>, an old word for man in northern English dialects and Scots; <strong>gumi<\/strong>, a poetic word for a man in Icelandic, and <strong>hombre<\/strong> (man, husband) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/gum%C3%B4\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the English word <strong>dean<\/strong> is not related to these words &#8211; it comes from the Middle English <em>de(e)n<\/em> (dean), from the Anglo-Norman <em>deen<\/em> and from the Old French <em>deien<\/em>, from Latin <em>dec\u0101nus<\/em> (chief of ten people, dean), from <em>decem<\/em> (ten) and <em>-\u0101nus<\/em> (of or pertaining to) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/gd%C5%AB\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for man and people in some Native American languages sound similar to, though are not related to these Celtic words. For example, <strong>din\u00e9<\/strong> (person, man, people) in Navajo comes from <strong>di-<\/strong> (thematic prefix relating to action performed with the arms and legs) and <strong>-n\u00e9<\/strong> (man, person) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/din%C3%A9\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>There are also words for people in Celtic languages that were borrowed from the Latin <em>populus<\/em> (people, nation, community):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>pobal<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u02e0\u0254b\u02e0\u0259l\u02e0] = people, community, parish, population in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>poball<\/strong> [pob\u0259l\u032a\u02e0] = folk, people, community in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>pobble<\/strong> = people, population, community in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>pobl<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u02b0\u0254bl\u0329\u02e0 \/ \u02c8p\u0254b\u0254l] = people, public, nation, tribe in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>pobel<\/strong> = people in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>pobl<\/strong> = people, multitude in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/02\/18\/person\/\">More details about these words on Celtiadur<\/a>, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth.<\/p>\n<p>I also write about words, etymology and other language-related topics on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\/id1432641094\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/8b1b1d1b-b39e-4277-b28d-479a3b5043b3\/radio-omniglot\">Amazon Music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Education-Podcasts\/Radio-Omniglot-p1154145\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podchaser.com\/podcasts\/radio-omniglot-716327\">Podchaser<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/radio-omniglot\">PlayerFM<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podtail.com\/da\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\/\">podtail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support this podcast, you can make a donation via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=aLjPfXL-vP_1gQ_U23Iz8_hSWLlhzLHPMFZrt32dIEfG8htoNFLYaPoWkv8&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63\">PayPal<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/omniglot\">Patreon<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/donations.htm\">contribute to Omniglot in other ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; People\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-07-22T17:16:25+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for person, human and related things.\n\n\n\nIn Proto-Celtic a word for person was *gdonyos, which comes from the Proto-Indo-European *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0om-yo- (earthling, human), from *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0\u014dm (earth, human) [source].\n\nDescende...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3616\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2079-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2079-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/pobl.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"pobl.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for person, human and related things. In Proto-Celtic a word for person was *gdonyos, which comes from the Proto-Indo-European *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0om-yo- (earthling, human), from *d\u02b0\u00e9\u01f5\u02b0\u014dm (earth, human) [source]. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include: duine [\u02c8d\u032a\u02e0\u026an\u02b2\u0259] = human, man, mankind, person in Irish duine [d\u026fn\u032a\u02b2\u0259] = fellow, person, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,29,6,4,50,36,58,123,55,1,94,59,111,5,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-middle-english","category-navajo-dine-bizaad","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}