{"id":2393,"date":"2022-12-03T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:24:03","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-celtic-pathways-brogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways &#8211; Brogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Brogue\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-12-03T17:27:24+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re look into the tangled origins of the word brogue. I decided to make this a joint Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways episode rather doing two separate ones. I hope you don't mind.\n\n\n\nThe word brogue in English refers to a ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5654\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2393-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.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\/brogue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2393-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"brogue.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re look into the tangled origins of the word <strong>brogue<\/strong>. I decided to make this a joint Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways episode rather doing two separate ones. I hope you don&#8217;t mind.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spera-designerschuhe\/24877521276\/in\/photolist-DUkNmC-Dok2Yn-7G14KN-qjaRWQ-rMGDp-C5fZbD-qgMv3S-6KbsoX-KFr1i7-buk6i2-K9Hk6V-doyY2W-7PdBxu-v7W3gb-L4Rk2q-qgU5He-buk6oM-opGeA8-fKQz7o-v8xcoi-bvs4jP-E8oGPC-f7Jvpc-6KbqaM-xCfmte-bvrXip-NB6ptR-98teL8-buk6mD-bvs2UV-EnNvFd-bvs1qi-vMsuxX-K9CrpX-gno2rR-rbcA5C-9rErkj-6g7zH2-6g7zz2-qDPnEx-bvrVAF-qZpzXD-r3auMf-8CuARz-rg5Uzy-qjaSFq-qk4ECT-rdDQiQ-qDEszm-qW6dKV\" title=\"John Baker's Doppelmonk Brogue K188 Kalbsleder hellbraun (brown) (1)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1539\/24877521276_2016a91a34_z.jpg\" alt=\"John Baker's Doppelmonk Brogue K188 Kalbsleder hellbraun (brown) (1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>brogue<\/strong> in English refers to a type of shoe, or a strong accent, particularly a strong Irish accent when speaking English, although it originally referred to Irish spoken with a strong English accent, or a heavy shoe of untanned leather.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Irish word <strong>br\u00f3g<\/strong> (boot, shoe), from the Old Irish <em>br\u00f3c<\/em> [bro\u02d0\u0261] (shoe, sandal, greave), from the Old Norse <em>br\u00f3k<\/em> (trousers, breeches) or the Old English <em>br\u014dc<\/em> (underpants), both of which come from the Proto-Germanic <em>*br\u014dks<\/em> (rear end, rump, leggings, pants, trousers), from the PIE <em>*b\u02b0reg-<\/em> (to break, crack, split) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/brogue\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in other Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>br\u00f2g<\/strong> [br\u0254\u02d0g] = shoe, boot, hoof in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>braag<\/strong> = brogue, shoe in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>brog<\/strong> = brogue (shoe) in Welsh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brogue<\/strong> in the sense of accent might come from the Irish word <strong>barr\u00f3g<\/strong> (hug, wrestling grip, brogue, impediment of speech) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/barr%c3%b3g\">source<\/a>], which comes from the Old Irish <em>barr\u00f3c<\/em> (fast hold, tight grip, embrace, gripe, stitch) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dil.ie\/search?q=barr%C3%B3c&amp;search_in=headword\">source<\/a>],<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the Proto-Germanic root <em>*br\u014dks<\/em> include <strong>breeches\/britches<\/strong> in English, <strong>br\u00f3k<\/strong> (trousers, underpants) in Icelandic and Faroese, <strong>brok<\/strong> (trousers) in Swedish and Norwegian, and <strong>broek<\/strong> (trousers) in Dutch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/br%C5%8Dks\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Irish word <strong>br\u00edste<\/strong> (trousers), the Manx word <strong>bree\u00e7hyn<\/strong> (breeches) and the Welsh word <strong>brits\/britsh<\/strong> (breeches) were borrowed from the English word <strong>breeches<\/strong>. The Scottish Gaelic word <strong>briogais<\/strong> (trousers) comes from the Scots <strong>breeks<\/strong> (trousers, breeches), from the Middle English <em>breke<\/em>, from the Old English <em>br\u0113\u010b<\/em> [bre\u02d0t\u0361\u0283] (underpants) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/briogais#Scottish_Gaelic\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>More details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/12\/03\/boots-and-shoes\/\">shoe<\/a>&#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/11\/24\/trousers-socks-and-sites\/\">trouser<\/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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I decided to make this a joint Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways episode rather doing two separate ones. I hope you don't mind.\n\n\n\nThe word brogue in English refers to a ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5655\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2393-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.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\/brogue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2393-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/brogue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"brogue.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re look into the tangled origins of the word brogue. I decided to make this a joint Adventures in Etymology \/ Celtic Pathways episode rather doing two separate ones. I hope you don&#8217;t mind. The word brogue in English refers to a type of shoe, or a strong accent, particularly a strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,38,122,37,47,20,56,95,29,6,4,36,11,84,55,128,64,1,57,59,111,5,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese-foroyskt-mal","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-music","category-norwegian-norsk","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-old-norse-dnsk-tunga","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}