{"id":2612,"date":"2023-03-04T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T15:27:36","slug":"celtic-pathways-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Heights\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-04T15:27:35+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking up words for high and related things.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *ardwos means high, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *h\u2083r\u0325d\u02b0w\u00f3s., from *h\u2083erd\u02b0- (to increase, grow; upright, high)  [Source].\n\nRelated words in the mod...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3634\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2612-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.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\/heights.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2612-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"heights.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking up words for <strong>high<\/strong> and related things.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/27355989425\/in\/album-72157626541135224\/\" title=\"View from Snowdon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7472\/27355989425_0d21d791e7_z.jpg\" alt=\"View from Snowdon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <strong>*ardwos<\/strong> means high, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*h\u2083r\u0325d\u02b0w\u00f3s.<\/em>, from <em>*h\u2083erd\u02b0-<\/em> (to increase, grow; upright, high)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/ardwos\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in the modern Celtic language include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ard<\/strong> [\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0d\u032a\u02e0\/\u00e6\u02d0\u027e\u02e0d\u032a\u02e0] = height, hillock, top, high part; high, tall, loud, ambitious, chief, excellent, noble or advanced in Irish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00e0rd<\/strong> [a\u02d0r\u032a\u02e0d] = high, lofty, tall; great; loud; chief, eminent, superior or supreme in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>ard<\/strong> = high, towering, tall, big, loud, height, high place, fell, incline, district, region, direction, compass point or pole in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>ardd<\/strong> [ar\u00f0] =  hill, highland, top, high or upland in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>ardh<\/strong> = height or high place in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>arz<\/strong> = high or elevated in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Ardennes, a region of forests and hills in mainly in Belgium, Luxembourg, and also in France and Germany, was known as <em>Arduenna Silva<\/em> in Latin. The first part of the Latin name probably comes from the Gaulish <em>*arduenna<\/em> (high), or from the Latin <em>arduus<\/em> (lofty, high, steep, tall), which comes from the same PIE root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ardennes\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same PIE roots include <strong>arbor<\/strong>, <strong>arduous<\/strong>, <strong>orthodox<\/strong> and <strong>orthography<\/strong> in English, <strong>arbre<\/strong> (tree) in French, <strong>\u00e1rbol<\/strong> (tree, mast) in Spanish, and <strong>\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442<\/strong> [rost] (growth, increase, rise, height, stature) in Russian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/h%E2%82%83erd%CA%B0-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can be find more details of words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/09\/30\/high\/\">High, Elevated, Noble<\/a> and related things in Celtic languages 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; Heights\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-04T15:27:35+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking up words for high and related things.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *ardwos means high, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *h\u2083r\u0325d\u02b0w\u00f3s., from *h\u2083erd\u02b0- (to increase, grow; upright, high)  [Source].\n\nRelated words in the mod...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3635\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2612-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.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\/heights.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2612-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/heights.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"heights.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking up words for high and related things. The Proto-Celtic word *ardwos means high, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *h\u2083r\u0325d\u02b0w\u00f3s., from *h\u2083erd\u02b0- (to increase, grow; upright, high) [Source]. Related words in the modern Celtic language include: ard [\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0d\u032a\u02e0\/\u00e6\u02d0\u027e\u02e0d\u032a\u02e0] = height, hillock, top, high part; high, tall, loud, ambitious, chief, excellent, noble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,23,117,6,4,50,36,11,1,94,59,32,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaulish","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-music","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","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=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}