{"id":2367,"date":"2022-11-26T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:02:33","slug":"celtic-pathways-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Flowers\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-26T17:02:33+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re look into words for flowers and related things.\n\n\n\nIn Proto-Celtic, the word *bl\u0101tus meant flower of blossom. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *b\u02b0leh\u2083- (bloom, flower) [source].\n\nDescendents in the modern Celtic langua...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7585\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2367-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.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\/flowers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2367-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"flowers.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re look into words for <strong>flowers<\/strong> and related things.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/42480801665\/in\/photolist-RKRgYx-S8L9MX-269Uck9-26DpAGU-26G2PLq-26G2X7Y-26LFguq-27yfYtF-27HTdjV-281sq43-281wxAk-284SdSa-28jQaJE-28qKG8X-29k3cw3-29pbNST-2ec6iB4-2eGxhiL-2jocBm1-2meXmEW-2mrswfU-KJvqm9-KJvqyy-21eXH7P-22TjrbD-nsaz6f-K7dnMy-ThWucE-TFvV1R-UHTqqa-GfUoe5-R2JGig-SknfJy-SpZMXo-SFsfYo-SRD7HY-T4nSLg-UvcBVQ-VC4Pu7-VEBQma-WpxCuA-WTWATg-WUzaoo-Xt9ydF-XVbTYJ-2iivJzm-94gmpi\" title=\"View from Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1786\/42480801665_fdb6068a54_z.jpg\" alt=\"View from Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig\" 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, the word <strong>*bl\u0101tus<\/strong> meant flower of blossom. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*b\u02b0leh\u2083-<\/em> (bloom, flower) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/bl%C4%81tus\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>bl\u00e1th<\/strong> [b\u02e0l\u032a\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\/b\u02e0l\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0] = blossom, flower; bloom, beauty, prime; prosperity or abundance in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>bl\u00e0th<\/strong> [bl\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0] = bloom, blossom, flower, consequence, effect or heyday in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>blaa<\/strong> [ble\u02d0] = bloom, blossom, flower, heyday or pride in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>blodyn<\/strong> [\u02c8bl\u0254d\u0268\u031en \/ \u02c8blo\u02d0d\u026an] = flower, bloom, blossoms, florets, flowering plant or petal in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>bleujen<\/strong> [\u02c8bl\u025bd\u0292\u0259n] = blossom or flower in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>bleu\u00f1v<\/strong> [bl\u0153\u0303w] = flowers, flowering, apogee or menstruation in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <em>*bl\u0101tus<\/em> became <em>*bl\u0101t\u014dn\u0101<\/em> (flower) in Gaulish, which was borrowed into Medieval Latin as <em>bl\u0101d\u014dna<\/em> (mullein &#8211; plants of the genus <em>Verbascum<\/em>), which became <strong>belladonna<\/strong> (a.k.a. deadly nightshade \/ <em>Atropa belladonna<\/em>) in Italian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/bl%C4%81tus\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same PIE root include <strong>bloom<\/strong>, <strong>blossom<\/strong>, <strong>blade<\/strong>, <strong>flower<\/strong>, <strong>flour<\/strong>, <strong>flourish<\/strong>, <strong>foliage<\/strong> and <strong>folio<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*b%CA%B0leh%E2%82%83-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, words meaning <strong>flour<\/strong> in some Celtic languages come from the same PIE root, via Anglo-Norman, Old French, Latin and Proto-Italic. They include <strong>ffl\u0175r\/fflowr<\/strong> in Welsh, <strong>flooyr<\/strong> in Manx, <strong>fl\u00f9r<\/strong> in Scottish Gaelic, and <strong>pl\u00far<\/strong> in Irish, which also means <strong>flower<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/10\/06\/flour\/\">more details<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>More details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/09\/29\/flowers\/\">flower<\/a>-related words in Celtic languages can be found on the Celtiadur, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth. 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It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *b\u02b0leh\u2083- (bloom, flower) [source].\n\nDescendents in the modern Celtic langua...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7586\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2367-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.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\/flowers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2367-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/flowers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"flowers.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re look into words for flowers and related things. In Proto-Celtic, the word *bl\u0101tus meant flower of blossom. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *b\u02b0leh\u2083- (bloom, flower) [source]. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include: bl\u00e1th [b\u02e0l\u032a\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\/b\u02e0l\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0] = blossom, flower; bloom, beauty, prime; prosperity or abundance in Irish bl\u00e0th [bl\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0] = bloom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,117,6,12,4,50,36,1,94,59,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-gaulish","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}