{"id":2748,"date":"2023-05-12T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2023-05-21T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T10:55:34","slug":"top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Top Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Top Tips\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-12T13:09:59+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking into words for top, tip and related things in Celtic languages.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *barros means top, point or peak. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:\n\n \tbarr [b\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0] = tip, point, top, summit, u...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7921\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2748-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.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\/toptips.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2748-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"toptips.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking into words for <strong>top<\/strong>, <strong>tip<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/26748576794\/in\/album-72157626541135224\/\" title=\"Snowdon \/ Yr Wyddfa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7282\/26748576794_e86699c19b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdon \/ Yr Wyddfa\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <strong>*barros<\/strong> means top, point or peak. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>barr<\/strong> [b\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0] = tip, point, top, summit, upper part, surface, etc in Irish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>b\u00e0rr<\/strong> [ba\u02d0r\u032a\u02e0] = apex, crest, crown, summit, tip, top, zenith, surface, etc in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>baare<\/strong> = apex, cap, climax, end, point, summit, tip, top, crest (of a wave), etc n in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>bar<\/strong> [bar] = head, top, summit, crest, bush, tuft or branch in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>barr<\/strong> = summit in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>barr<\/strong> = summit, surface, access or paroxysm in Breton [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/barros\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Celtic roots, via Gaulish and Latin, include <strong>bar\u00e0z<\/strong> (bramble) in Romansh, and <strong>barra<\/strong> (garret, loft, upper platform) in Galician [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_French_words_of_Gaulish_origin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE roots include <strong>barley<\/strong> in English, <strong>farine<\/strong> (flour) in French, <strong>bara<\/strong> (bread) in Welsh, Cornish and Breton, <strong>bair\u00edn<\/strong> (loaf) in Irish, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/04\/24\/bread\/\">related words in Celtic languages<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/b%CA%B0ers-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the unrelated Galician word <strong>barra<\/strong> (sandbank, bar, rod) possibly comes from a Gaulish word, via the Vulgar Latin <em>barra<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/barra#Galician\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can find more details of these words on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/09\/11\/surfaces\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> blog. 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<p>Radio Omniglot podcasts are brought to you in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/services\/podcast-hosting\/?code=omniglot\">Blubrry Podcast Hosting<\/a>, a great place to host your podcasts. Get your first month free with the promo code <strong>omniglot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Top Tips\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-12T13:09:59+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking into words for top, tip and related things in Celtic languages.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *barros means top, point or peak. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:\n\n \tbarr [b\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0] = tip, point, top, summit, u...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7922\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2748-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.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\/toptips.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2748-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/toptips.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"toptips.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking into words for top, tip and related things in Celtic languages. The Proto-Celtic word *barros means top, point or peak. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include: barr [b\u02e0\u0251\u02d0\u027e\u02e0] = tip, point, top, summit, upper part, surface, etc in Irish. b\u00e0rr [ba\u02d0r\u032a\u02e0] = apex, crest, crown, summit, tip, top, zenith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,23,143,117,6,4,50,36,11,1,94,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-galician-galego","category-gaulish","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-music","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}