{"id":4015,"date":"2025-07-19T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:13:24","slug":"celtic-pathways-shovelling-oars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Shovelling Oars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Shovelling Oars\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-07-19T12:13:24+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M33S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we uncover the Celtic roots of words for oar, to row and related things in Basque.\n\n\n\nThe Proto-Celtic word *r\u0101myos means  oar, spade or shovel and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *h\u2081reh\u2081- (to row) [source].\n\nDescendants in the mod...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/shovellingoars.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.5\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8950\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4015-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/shovellingoars.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/shovellingoars.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/shovellingoars.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\/shovellingoars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=4015-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/shovellingoars.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"shovellingoars.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we uncover the Celtic roots of words for <strong>oar<\/strong>, <strong>to row<\/strong> and related things in Basque.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cj_iom\/12527066385\/in\/photolist-k5Yupc-k5YZ6D-k5YPe4-k61Uyu-22yD8Kc-8jTNEx-k61UX5-k5Z1pk-k5YkqF-9NHCAH-8jTJBp-M8Wkqw-YQfmxf-oFDkos-k61Mwo-nSkjGT-k61Xwo-obwDHc-2181yGS-F95yZo-25SVcgu-5bKbf8-HEEuk2-233rSMe-o9BjxT-8jWWfA-o9woQr-o7TMju-24kKKVj-k5Y9yZ-o9wm8U-8VuqvQ-o9Bmvk-k5YvRF-k61WZw-4QFvSH-o9Davv-o7QEa5-nS8GZF-nSj57a-o9MMfk-k5YVgK-k5YXLp-o7TMxL-o9NbdS-29tRdgN-k5YQii-k61HJo-8jWYAJ-xF8vDT\" title=\"Viking long boat race (58)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3692\/12527066385_7f4c9eb571_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Viking long boat race (58)\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <strong>*r\u0101myos<\/strong> means  oar, spade or shovel and comes from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*h\u2081reh\u2081-<\/em> (to row) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/r%C4%81myos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Descendants in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>r\u00e1mh<\/strong> [\u027e\u02e0\u0251\u02d0v] = oar in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>r\u00e0mh<\/strong> [r\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0v] = oar, paddle in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>raue<\/strong> = rowing in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>rhaw<\/strong> [r\u0325a\u02d0u\u032f] = shovel, spade in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>reuv<\/strong> = shovel in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>roev<\/strong> = spade in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Celtic root include <strong>arraun<\/strong> (oar, rowing), <strong>arraundu<\/strong> (to row), <strong>arrauean<\/strong> (rowing), <strong>arraunlari<\/strong> (rower, oarsman), and <strong>arraunontzi<\/strong> (rowing boat, rowboat) in Basque [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/arraun#Basque\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same PIE root include <strong>row<\/strong>, <strong>rudder<\/strong> and <strong>trireme<\/strong> (a galley with three banks of oars) in English, <strong>riem<\/strong> (oar, paddle) in Dutch, <strong>rojen<\/strong> (to row) in German, <strong>remiero<\/strong> (rowing) in Italian, <strong>radeau<\/strong> (raft) in French [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/h%E2%82%81reh%E2%82%81-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The name <strong>Russia<\/strong> also comes from the same PIE roots, via Medieval Latin <em>Russia<\/em>, Old East Slavic <em>\u0420\u0443\u0441\u044c<\/em> (Rus\u012d &#8211; inhabitants of Rus*), Byzantine Greek <em>\u1fec\u1ff6\u03c2<\/em> (Rh\u00f4s &#8211; Rus), probably Proto-Finnic <em>*roocci<\/em> (person from the coast of Roden, later a Swede), Old East Norse <em>*ro\u00fes-<\/em> (related to rowing); Old Norse <em>r\u00f3\u00f0r<\/em> (steering oar), and Proto-Germanic <em>*r\u014d\u00fer\u0105<\/em> (rudder) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Russia#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Rus<\/strong> refers to <strong>Kievan Rus&#8217;<\/strong>, the medieval East Slavic state established by Scandinavian warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in <strong>\u041a\ua651\u0435\u0432\u044a<\/strong> (Kyjev\u016d &#8211; Kyiv), and the inhabitants of this state [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Rus#English\">more details<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, words for <strong>Sweden<\/strong> and <strong>Swedish<\/strong> in Finnic and Sami languages come from the same PIE roots, and include <strong>ruotsi<\/strong> (Swedish [language]) in Finnish, <strong>Rootsi<\/strong> (Sweden) in Estonian, and <strong>Ruo\u0167\u0167a<\/strong> (Sweden) in Northern S\u00e1mi [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic\/roocci\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Radio Omniglot podcasts are brought to you in association with <a 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The Proto-Celtic word *r\u0101myos means oar, spade or shovel and comes from the Proto-Indo-European *h\u2081reh\u2081- (to row) [source]. Descendants in the modern Celtic languages include: r\u00e1mh [\u027e\u02e0\u0251\u02d0v] = oar in Irish r\u00e0mh [r\u032a\u02e0a\u02d0v] = oar, paddle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,38,272,122,37,47,20,161,56,125,23,24,6,12,4,36,11,273,271,64,1,94,270,57,59,5,7],"tags":[274,139,90,9,167,15,275,88,8,278,279,283,280,277,276,281,282,103],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basque-euskera","category-breton","category-byzantine-greek-","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-estonian-eesti-keel","category-etymology","category-finnish-suomi","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-manx","category-music","category-northern-sami-davvisamegiella","category-old-east-slavic-old-russian","category-old-norse-dnsk-tunga","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-finnic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","tag-basque","tag-celtic","tag-etymology","tag-language","tag-linguistics","tag-music","tag-oar","tag-omniglot","tag-podcast","tag-row","tag-rowing","tag-rus","tag-russia","tag-shovel","tag-spade","tag-sweden","tag-swedish","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}