{"id":2655,"date":"2023-03-11T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:35:10","slug":"celtic-pathways-towns-and-beehives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Towns and Beehives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Towns and Beehives\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-11T13:35:09+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re finding out how words for towns and related things in Celtic languages are linked to words for beehives in other languages.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *treb\u0101 means dwelling, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *treb- (dwelling,...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7715\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2655-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.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\/towns.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2655-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"towns.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re finding out how words for <strong>towns<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages are linked to words for <strong>beehives<\/strong> in other languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianturk\/2377575515\/in\/photolist-4C6Gni-7gLafg-2nQSvZ4-7gLarX-2nQCnhS-2nQE9Dt-2nQMgrr-7gLaxx-2nQAQNu-2nQELoH-2jv9atE-2nQNSNk-2nQKvJQ-7gLakx-7gQ6FN-2nQR1uj-7comN2-7comTR-7comJx-2nQJwAs-rN3dqi-c7HLoU-2mG5eZp-c86oEN-QkcKNg-mfQrcD-mfQqy4-8i42zJ-obbFYd-P6CmsD-mfRgog-RR9zSK-4uzx41-mfRgT4-2mDVgdC-mfSkoE-4twXKb-5AMjT7-a4Fboa-96c1oo-mfSkJQ-mfSkvo-4twTPq-mfQrGX-ef1agi-7RjSCs-2jvdfjY-mfSjMQ-mfSjJJ-mfQqQM\" title=\"Trefor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2311\/2377575515_b2e67155cf_z.jpg\" alt=\"Trefor\" width=\"640\" height=\"217\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <strong>*treb\u0101<\/strong> means dwelling, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*treb-<\/em> (dwelling, settlement) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/treb-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in the modern Celtic language include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>treibh<\/strong>  [\u02c8t\u02b2\u027e\u02b2\u025bv] = house, homestead, farmstead, household, family, tribe or race in Irish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>treubh<\/strong> [tre\u02d0v] = tribe, family, clan or kin, and possibly <strong>treabh<\/strong> [tro] = farming village in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>tre(f)<\/strong> [tre\u02d0(v)] = town; town centre; dwelling(-place), habitation, residence, home; house (and surrounding land), homestead or farm in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>tre<\/strong> = [tr\u025b:\/tre:] = farmstead, home, town or village in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>trev<\/strong> = town in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There doesn\u2019t appear to be a cognate word in Manx.<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Celtic root (via Latin) possibly include <strong>trobo<\/strong> (beehive, skep) in Galician, and <strong>tru\u00e9banu<\/strong> (beehive, barrel, basket) in Asturian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trobo\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The archaic English word <strong>thorp(e)<\/strong> (a group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village), which appears in place names such as <strong>Milnthorpe<\/strong> and <strong>Scunthorpe<\/strong>, comes from the same PIE roots [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trobo\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same PIE roots include <strong>Dorf<\/strong> (hamlet, village, town) in German, <strong>torp<\/strong> (farm, cottage, croft) in Swedish, <strong>\u00feorp<\/strong> (village, farm) in Icelandic, and <strong>trev\u00eb<\/strong> (country, region, village) in Albanian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/thorp#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can be find more details of words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/04\/15\/dwellings\/\">Towns and Tribes<\/a> 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; Towns and Beehives\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-11T13:35:09+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re finding out how words for towns and related things in Celtic languages are linked to words for beehives in other languages.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *treb\u0101 means dwelling, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *treb- (dwelling,...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7716\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2655-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.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\/towns.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2655-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/towns.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"towns.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re finding out how words for towns and related things in Celtic languages are linked to words for beehives in other languages. The Proto-Celtic word *treb\u0101 means dwelling, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *treb- (dwelling, settlement) [source]. Related words in the modern Celtic language include: treibh [\u02c8t\u02b2\u027e\u02b2\u025bv] = house, homestead, farmstead, household, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,146,38,122,37,47,20,56,143,24,29,6,4,50,36,11,1,94,59,5,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albanian-shqip","category-asturian-asturianu","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-galician-galego","category-german","category-icelandic","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-music","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}