{"id":2313,"date":"2022-11-05T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2022-11-06T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T14:28:45","slug":"celtic-pathways-a-slew-of-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; A Slew of Slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; A Slew of Slogans\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-05T16:59:13+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking into the Celtic roots of the words slogan and slew.\n\n\n\nIn English the word slogan means a distinctive phrase of a person or group of people, a motto, a catchphrase, and formerly, a battle cry used by the Irish or by Scot...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/slogan.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4248\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2313-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/slogan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/slogan.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/slogan.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\/slogan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2313-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/slogan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"slogan.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking into the Celtic roots of the words <strong>slogan<\/strong> and <strong>slew<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/various\/sloganslew.jpg\" alt=\"A Slew of Slogans\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\"><\/p>\n<p>In English the word <strong>slogan<\/strong> means a distinctive phrase of a person or group of people, a motto, a catchphrase, and formerly, a battle cry used by the Irish or by Scottish highlanders [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/slogan#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In the past it was written <strong>sloggorne<\/strong>, <strong>slughorne<\/strong> or <strong>slughorn<\/strong>, and it comes from the Scottish Gaelic <strong>sluagh-ghairm<\/strong> [\u02c8s\u026b\u032au\u0259\u0263\u0264\u027e\u02b2\u0259m] (battle cry) from the Old Irish <em>sl\u00f3g\/sl\u00faag<\/em> (army, host, throng, crowd), and <em>gairm<\/em> (call, cry, crow, proclamation) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sluagh-ghairm#Scottish_Gaelic\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Old Irish word <em>sl\u00f3g\/sl\u00faag<\/em> comes from the Proto-Celtic <em>*slougos<\/em> (troop, army), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*slowg(\u02b0)os<\/em> (entourage) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/slougos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Celtic words from the same root include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>slua<\/strong> [s\u02e0l\u032a\u02e0u\u0259] = host, force, army; crowd, multitude, throng in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>sluagh<\/strong> [sl\u032a\u02e0u\u0259\u0263] = folk, people, populace; the fairy host; crowd in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>sleih<\/strong> =  commonalty, crowd, family, inhabitants, people, populace, public, relations in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>llu<\/strong> [\u026c\u0268\u02d0 \/ \u026ci\u02d0] = host, a large number (of people), a great many, multitude, throng, crowd in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>lu<\/strong> [ly: \/ li\u02d1\u028a] = army, military, troop in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>lu<\/strong> = army in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/04\/21\/families-and-households\/\">family and household<\/a> in Celtic languages, such as <strong>teaghlach<\/strong> in Irish and <strong>teulu<\/strong> in Welsh, come from the same Proto-Celtic root, via <em>*tegoslougom<\/em> (\u201chouse army\u201d) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/tegoslougom\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>slew<\/strong> (a large amount), as in \u201ca slew of papers\u201d was borrowed from the Irish <strong>slua<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/slew#Etymology_4\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE root include <strong>\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0433\u0430<\/strong> (servant) in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian; <strong>s\u0142uga<\/strong> (minion, servant) in Polish; <strong>sluha<\/strong> (servant) in Czech and Slovak, <strong>slug\u0103<\/strong> (servant, domestic) in Romanian, and <strong>szolga<\/strong> (servant, attendant) in Hungarian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic\/sluga\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Old Irish word <em>gairm<\/em> (call, cry, crow, proclamation) comes from the Proto-Celtic <em>*gar(r)man-<\/em> (cry, shout), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5h\u2082r\u0325-smn\u0325<\/em>, from <em>*\u01f5eh\u2082r-<\/em> (to shout, cry).<\/p>\n<p>Celtic words from the same root include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>gairm<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0261a\u027e\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2\/\u02c8\u0261\u026a\u027e\u02b2\u0259m\u02b2] = call, summons, calling, vocation in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>gairm<\/strong> [\u0261\u0264r\u02b2\u0264m] = calling, crying, call, cry, announcing, declaring, convenning, call of the cockerel in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>gerrym<\/strong> =  crowing, outcry, shouting, whoop, whooping, (cock) crow), avocation, mission, profession, vocation in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>garm<\/strong> = shout, cry, outcry, clamour in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>garm<\/strong> = shout, whoop, yell in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>garm<\/strong> = cry, clamour, weeping in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>g\u00e1ir<\/strong> (cry, shout, report) in Irish, <strong>goir<\/strong> (to call, cry, hoot) in Scottish Gaelic, <strong>gair<\/strong> (word, speech) in Welsh [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/11\/09\/calling-words-2\/\">more details<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English words <strong>garrulous<\/strong> (excessively talkative), <strong>care<\/strong> and <strong>charm<\/strong> (sound of many voices (esp. of birds or children), a flock or group (esp. of finches)) as come from the same PIE roots [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/11\/09\/calling-words-2\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>More details about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/02\/19\/troop-host-throng\/\">Troop, host, throng<\/a> can be found on the Celtiadur, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth. 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In English the word slogan means a distinctive phrase of a person or group of people, a motto, a catchphrase, and formerly, a battle cry used by the Irish or by Scottish highlanders [source]. In the past it was written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,38,121,122,37,20,56,6,4,36,128,1,94,59,32,5,118,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-norman-norman","category-breton","category-bulgarian-","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-ukrainian-","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}