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Úr (letter)
Úr is the Irish name of the eighteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, áš’, meaning "clay", "earth", "soil" and also "fresh" or "moist". In Old Irish, the letter name was also written Úir. Its phonetic value is or : BrÃatharogam In the medieval kennings A kenning ( Icelandic: ) is a figure of speech, a figuratively-phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun. For instance, the Old English kenning () means , as does (). A kenning has two parts: a base-word (a ..., called '' BrÃatharogaim'' or ''Word Ogham'' the verses associated with ''úr'' are: ''úaraib adbaib'' - "in cold dwellings" in the ''BrÃatharogam'' ''Morann mic MoÃn'' ''sÃlad cland'' - "propagation of plants" in the ''BrÃatharogam'' ''Mac ind Óc'' ''forbbaid ambÃ'' - "shroud of a lifeless one" in the ''BrÃatharogam'' ''Con'' ''Culainn''. References Ogham letters {{alphabet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
