{"id":2203,"date":"2022-09-17T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2022-09-17T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:41:28","slug":"celtic-pathways-bells-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Bells &#038; Clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Bells &amp;#038; Clocks\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-09-17T14:41:26+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for bells, clocks and related things..\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word for bell was *klokkos, which comes either from the Proto-Indo-European *kl\u0113g-\/*kl\u014dg- (onomatopoeia), or from *kleg- (to cry, sound) [source].\n\nDesc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bells.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3034\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2203-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bells.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bells.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bells.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\/bells.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2203-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bells.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"bells.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking at words for <strong>bells<\/strong>, <strong>clocks<\/strong> and related things..<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andreakirkby\/9456815985\/in\/photolist-fpEDVt-9LCjkq-7PKWy-51P3TT-5Ff9-aBiqkZ-pPxqrb-4TPRSk-4XY9wq-6XFiqg-TsJBU-6qjSkd-EEJyQ7-6mssD6-4bD9SG-6mssoM-2gDjxKC-i98es-4sLVhd-4ZucF-GzyjRG-2kKw6PT-nthyL3-2knd4ef-whLYR-fzZWFj-2kMWQam-s26wc9-mXuusQ-tDvVqu-mfQAsT-CZTkzs-mwEWjR-ntfcTg-nau7Yw-mfRm5F-29GD825-mfSrMG-afX82p-y7f7LC-qdgL3o-qdhzvS-y8NQye-T4LxxF-nsYeij-qdgKx5-3Tcn-T4Lvu2-qTYNES-HZn616\" title=\"Bells\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7374\/9456815985_2f6ebd6c24_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bells\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word for bell was <strong>*klokkos<\/strong>, which comes either from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*kl\u0113g-\/*kl\u014dg-<\/em> (<em>onomatopoeia<\/em>), or from <em>*kleg-<\/em> (to cry, sound) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/clocca\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Descendants in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>clog<\/strong> [kl\u02e0\u0254\u0261] = bell, clock in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>clag<\/strong> [kl\u032a\u02e0ag] = bell; crash, loud noise in Scottish Gaulish<\/li>\n<li><strong>clag<\/strong> = bell, clock, ball in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>cloch<\/strong> [klo\u02d0\u03c7] = bell, bell-shaped object, bubble; prize, feat; o\u2019clock in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>klogh<\/strong> [kl\u0254:x \/ klo:h] = bell in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>kloc\u2019h<\/strong> = bell in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Medieval Latin word <em>clocca<\/em> possibly comes from the same Proto-Celtic root. It meant bell from the 8th century, bell-shaped clock from the 13th century and clock from the 15th century [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/clocca\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Latin root include <strong>cloche<\/strong>, <strong>cloak<\/strong> and <strong>clock<\/strong> in English, <strong>cloche<\/strong> (bell, cover, clot) and <strong>cloque<\/strong> (blister) in French, <strong>klocka<\/strong> (clock, watch, bell)  in Swedish, and <strong>Glocke<\/strong> (bell) in German [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/clock#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/04\/13\/bells-and-clocks\/\">More details about these words on Celtiadur<\/a>, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth. 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The Proto-Celtic word for bell was *klokkos, which comes either from the Proto-Indo-European *kl\u0113g-\/*kl\u014dg- (onomatopoeia), or from *kleg- (to cry, sound) [source]. Descendants in the modern Celtic languages include: clog [kl\u02e0\u0254\u0261] = bell, clock in Irish clag [kl\u032a\u02e0ag] = bell; crash, loud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,23,24,6,4,50,36,1,94,5,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}