Scottish Gaelic Loanwords
9 October, 2007OK, so I get no points for telling you that Scottish English is a descendant of the Indo-European language family, of the Common Celtic language group within it.
Let’s have some Gaelic loanwords instead; English words of (Scottish) Gaelic origin more precisely:
Galore (from gu leòr)
Keen (from caoin)
Pet (from peata, originally a spoilt child)
Slogan (from sluagh-ghairm, battle-cry)
Trousers (from triubhas via “trews”)
Whisky (from uisge-beatha, water of life)
Lovely. A spoilt child, a battle cry and water of life… Sounds like a plot of a novel.
(photo by James F. Perry.)
Whisky pa voda življenja… Kakšn zgled pa dajejo
No ja, “a pet”, ljubljenček, je pa vseeno lahko razvajen, tako da to kar razumem, slogan in bojni krik… Si predstavljaš, da bi se v reklami za Calgon drli: “DA PRALNI STROJ BO DLJE ŽIVEL, DODAJ CALGON!” Bizarno.
Sicer pa hvala za to novico.
lp
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Kristina, pozdravljena, lepo, da se oglašaš in hvala ti.
Priznam, da nisem ljubiteljica viskija, tako da … mam raje vodo
Slogani pa včasih tudi kričijo, tj. so vpadljivi, čeprav priznam, da si jih malo zapomnim, ker jih je najbrž preveč. In tako najbrž spadam v sivo povprečje potrošnikom, ki se jim godi čisto isto
So when you’ve had some whiskey, are you keen on trouser-clad pets galore? Love the term “loanwords”. Funny that the English should be borrowing from the Scotts
After I have had some whisky, I would ask the nearest kilt-clad pet-resembling individual: Mo chridhe, hath thou anything under yon skirt?
Funny thing is, that the Romans called whisky “aqua vitae”, which remarkably simmilar, if you just make the effort (a lot easier if you’ve had a dram or two :))
I don’t really get this connection between alcohol and life
, but I have just found out the word “ava” means whisky in Tahitian. It also means wife. Sounds like an appropriate associtaion. 
You don’t see the connection? What about that feeling, the morning after a particularly demading night of drinking, when you have such a brutal hangover that you. just. want. to. die.
Why, yes, I see that connection. But wouldn’t it happen only in cases of drinking “water of death”?