{"id":2563,"date":"2023-02-12T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2023-02-12T14:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:24:58","slug":"celtic-pathways-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Bulls\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-02-12T14:24:57+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking into bulls and related beasts.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *tarwos means bull, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *t\u00e1wros (wild bull, aurochs), which possibly comes from or was borrowed into Proto-Semtic as *\u1e6fawr- (bull...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1288\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2563-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.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\/bulls.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2563-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"bulls.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking into <strong>bulls<\/strong> and related beasts.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lordskully\/15453510473\/in\/photolist-pxzhgK-2j2i4bY-cjn3jJ-axgGqC-oZUF4S-i9qhbP-cP2QNq-5bJJzr-5bNYZm-FZAX1e-5bJKma-81VGMy-oHspoh-CNKurd-TvqCHF-fUzxvX-fUAwGy-jghBU4-mdS22G-PVEz2G-8N18aN-ncDfkg-2bnbiP2-6J287i-6WTi3-2kRos2M-AKkuV-55LFuH-bnWUJB-BL5C2g-4YrPU2-2h2HjV6-Qz1NL-ajsMYe-CEX7r-97syPq-97ptW4-8ptmax-2JZb6W-8SVYbP-2gTXJk3-G73ym3-8eBcBM-2gTWR1D-36AD2m-vNU7bG-2kRorZT-7GPcZu-8eBcAp-eiGjXc\" title=\"What a load of bull\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/15453510473_183dd079bb_z.jpg\" alt=\"What a load of bull\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <strong>*tarwos<\/strong> means bull, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*t\u00e1wros<\/em> (wild bull, aurochs), which possibly comes from or was borrowed into Proto-Semtic as <em>*\u1e6fawr-<\/em> (bull, ox), from which we get <strong>\u062b\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0631<\/strong> (\u1e6fawr &#8211; bull, steer, ox, Taurus) in Arabic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic\/%E1%B9%AFawr-\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in Celtic language include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>tarbh<\/strong> [\u02c8t\u032a\u02e0a\u027e\u02e0u\u02d0] = bull or Taurus in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>tarbh<\/strong> [tarav] = bull in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>tarroo<\/strong> = bull in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>tarw<\/strong> [\u02c8taru] = bull, uncastrated male ox, papal bull or Taurus in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>tarow<\/strong> = bull in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>tarv<\/strong> = bull in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Old Irish Irish word for bull, <em>tarb<\/em> [tarv], was borrowed into Old Norse as <strong>tarfr<\/strong>, which became <strong>tarvur<\/strong> (bull, Taurus, womanizer) in Faroese, and <strong>tarfur<\/strong> (bull) in Icelandic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/tarwos\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE root include <strong>Taurus<\/strong> and <strong>steer<\/strong> in English, <strong>taureau<\/strong> (bull, Taurus) in French, <strong>toro<\/strong> (bull) in Spanish, and <strong>touro<\/strong> (bull) in Portuguese [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/t%C3%A1wros\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can be find more details of words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/01\/18\/cattle\/\">bulls and other cattle<\/a> on the Celtiadur, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Bulls\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-02-12T14:24:57+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking into bulls and related beasts.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *tarwos means bull, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *t\u00e1wros (wild bull, aurochs), which possibly comes from or was borrowed into Proto-Semtic as *\u1e6fawr- (bull...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1289\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2563-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.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\/bulls.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2563-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/bulls.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"bulls.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking into bulls and related beasts. The Proto-Celtic word *tarwos means bull, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *t\u00e1wros (wild bull, aurochs), which possibly comes from or was borrowed into Proto-Semtic as *\u1e6fawr- (bull, ox), from which we get \u062b\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0631 (\u1e6fawr &#8211; bull, steer, ox, Taurus) in Arabic [Source]. Related words in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,38,122,37,20,56,95,23,29,6,4,36,11,1,27,94,59,144,5,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic-","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese-foroyskt-mal","category-french","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-language","category-manx","category-music","category-podcast","category-portuguese","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-semitic","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}