10 English words with Irish origins + Irish word that’s English
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Some of the most colourful words in the English language originated across the water in Ireland. Here are some of our favourites…and at the end this video, at the risk of being thrown in the Irish Sea…we reveal the one word that seems to be the essence of Irishness, which is, in fact, from England.
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Tory comes from the Irish word 'toirmeasc' meaning outlaw.
Word "tóraigh" means "pursue" or "pirate". The tóraigh followed Cromwell's Army around and raided whatever English settler town the army had just left
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In Irish "Tóir" means 'to search for/ or pursue' - 'Tá na cùanna are thóir an tsionnaigh' - 'The hounds are chasing the fox/ are in pursuit of the fox'
'Torr' also means Scrubland or Wilderness and it's said that the Toraigh/Tories got the name - being dispossessed Irish who fled there to wage war on English land-grabbers.
The Wiggamores in Scotland/England gave the name to the Political 'Wigs' as did word Irish word 'Tories' inspire the nickname for that political grouping.
Begorra! 'n' me thought it came from (Queen) Victoria~.
@@dukadarodear2176 and today 'Tor' is software that is intended to protect against invasion ;)
Still does
Galore come from 'go leoir' which means 'lots of' or 'plenty of'. 'Ceart go leoir' means 'ok'.
In Munster it means 'enough'. I don't know what ye Provincial amadáns and Sasanachs are doing to the language at all at all.
Scots Gaelic has gu leor as being plenty, rather than enough.
@@Madimi
Scotch gaelic is very interesting.
I know a Donegal fisherman who tells me that he can converse pretty well with the Scots using Donegal (Ulster) Irish.
@@dukadarodear2176 Ulster scotch !
@@michaelarnold417My Irish high school teacher in 1997, a County Cavan man, explained go leor.
He's a proud 85 year old grandfather whose grandchildren are at university.
He's wrong about galore- that's almost literally go leor, which means more than enough.
Connie Marshner Pronunciation left something to be desired.🤣
Connie Marshner Yes, he's definitely a bit off the mark with galore. 'Ceart go leor' translates as 'all ok' or 'everything's correct/in order'. 'Go leor' literally means 'sufficient/enough' but in practice means 'loads of .../ oodles and oodles of ... / bursting at the seams with the oodles and oodles of...'
For most Irish people any expression meaning 'enough' seems mean and miserly and puny and a bit insufficient and definitely not enough...for us. So in practice we give the meaning an upgrade.🤣😂🤣
Michael MacFaden DICTIONARY SHAMING!!! How low can you go? You and your Dineen's Dictionary Ninteen Twenty Seven. I'll have you know that I own a 1937 Béarla agus Gaedhilge (note funny archaic spelling) dictionary by L. McCionnaith S.J. with real old Irish words in genuine real old illegible Irish script and with the front cover really hanging off (such is the authenticity of it). So there! 😂🤣😂
Michael MacFaden Well ... oh yeah...you're right...I've heard them say it too.😅
dont forget ''thick paddy'' the paddys are thick but harmless mountain men , the hillbillys are all irish decent .
Smashing comes from the phrase " is maith sinn" meaning that is good/ great , its smashing
Ireland and England have been influencing each other's cultures for centuries to the extent that there is an overlapping common culture in many regards.
They have not. It was mostly one way influence until Irish people emigrated to England in their thousands
No, millenia.
@@cigh7445 Completely incorrect. There has been trading and exchange of peoples for millennia from the two islands. With more sophisticated dna testing, we are finding that the genetics of the two islands are almost interchangeable however our cultures developed differently.
@@bobsmith5441 Irish and english are different genetically and dna results prove this. You can tell english and irish apart just by looking alot of the time.
A word you missed was 'Quiz'. The origins go back to the 19th century, when 2 Irishmen in Dublin bet each other that they could make up a word using the letters Q & Z, and get it recognised as a proper word. The winner was the word that most people remembered. The word Quiz won. The other word is lost to time. Interesting video.
Never heard about the origin of the word"Quiz"before.
@@derlinclaire1778 Glad to help.
Another is the word "quarks" from Joyce's Finnegan's wake.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 . So that's where they got the inspiration for the club in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine.
"Upon my honour," cried Lynmere, piqued, "the quoz of the present season are beyond what a man could have hoped to see!" "Quoz! what's quoz, nephew?" "Why it's a thing there's no explaining to you sort of gentlemen; and sometimes we say quiz, my good sir." Sir Hugh … felt seriously affronted. His utmost lenity could not palliate the wilful disrespect of this language; and, with a look of grave displeasure, he answered, "Really, nephew, I can't but say, I think you've got rather a particular odd way of speaking to persons. As to talking so much about people's being old, you'd do well to consider that's no fault in anybody; except one's years, which is what we can't be said to help."
- Fanny Burney, Camilla, 1796
source: www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-of-quiz
The English word 'spree' comes from 'spraoi' (both pronounced the same), which is Irish for 'fun'.
Spree is German for river.
As a native Irish speaker , I can tell you that the word craic is a shortening of the word craiceann . It's means skin.
Its slang for a person. "An raibh móran craiceann ann."? Was there many/much skins/people there?.
Was it fun? That's why the word Craic becomes synonymous with the fun of social gatherings.
"Bá iontach an Chraic é.".... He was a great skin. " Cé'n chaoi a Bhfuil an chraic?" ...How's the skin..in other words how are you?
In east Galway they still say in English , how's it going old skin?
Mhaith tú Joe 👍
Dubliners often refer to a "sound" person as a daycent skin . I wonder if craicailte might be in the origin somewhere as
well
@@ParnellJP1 I think the word craic is relatively new , maybe only going back to late 50's.
I listen to old songs in Irish ( Sean nós), or English and there are plenty describing social gathering but the word doesn't appear to be used at all. For example , Percy French's ' Phil the fluters' ball. ' practically describes the craic and fun of a party in detail . But never uses the word craic. The word wasn't around at the time. But "craicailte" , means slightly mad, ie crazy. I don't know why.
Móran craiceann?....became ....Móran craic ann? . They were just word playing.
Not just in galway...
And then we have me late Granny ...who used GOBSHITE as and when needed rip you old bugger , still miss you.
Physiological opposite of a gobshite would have to be an asspuke........now that'd be a really vile insult!
@@andrewg.carvill4596 Don't discount the delivery (with just enough distilled bile) to render many a silly man ....dumb , think can say Gran was more arse than ass ..Yes less is more asspuke to Peter Griffin and co for me , think stick with ...GAME OF MOBILE HOMES ..down rabbit hole of Tubes of You
@@andrewg.carvill4596 Or as Robert Greene would say "Bum snot" LOL!!
Banshee also came from the Irish Bean An Sídhe which basically means otherworldly woman.
Martin Harrington And the more modern Bean Sí.
Clodaghbob Correct! Like the word Sióg. Which means fairy. Or otherworldly young one. Or the little folk from the mounds/hills.
White woman /banshee.
Sean Mullan White woman would be ( bean bhán )
Bean = Woman
Bán = White
Martin Harrington Ná bac le Sean Mullan. Is tóin glic é. That's my best effort after not speaking Irish for decades. If you can think of a better translation for "smart arse", please let me know. They didn't teach us bad language in school. We were deprived of a whole chunk of our 'culture'.🤣😂🤣
I have ancestors from Ireland like my Scottish Welsh roots I love respect my huge family in the UK and this is a English man speak in England
Missed kaibosh. To put the kaibosh on an idea or plan. In courts in Britain and Ireland, if a sentence of death was being delivered by the judge, it was customary that he would first don a black cap." Cap" in irish is "Caip", pronounced kype. "Death" in irish is "bas" pronounced "baws". Because it is the possessive pronoun, "bas" becomes "báis" pronounced "bosh".
To include the word "kibosh" they'd have had to change the name of the video to '11 English Words with Irish Origins...'!
I love the young lady is holding a real dictionary 😊❤️‼️
Hubbub. From the mid 16th Century and thought to be related to the war-cries and shout of "Abu" given in battle by Irish warriors.
This was the time of the wars of Elizabeth Tudor in Ireland and the Irish generally fought on their own terms using woodland, bog, fords and the like to their advantage.
Galore comes from “go leor” meaning many or much
I liked all those words. They have a wonderful sound as they roll off the tongue. All the better for their origins. Except that last one. Crack-Craic ? That cracks me up.
bless him his pronunciation is dire .
Joan Grennan I wasn't going to comment for fear that there was some corner of a lesser known Gaeltacht that did pronounce it that way. Then we'd all be treated to "I'll have you know that my granny always spoke like that - lived to 96 with three teeth and not a word of English. So there!"🤣😂🤣
Tell us the correct pronunciation then.
Helen Trope OK.
Re. Galore: ceart go leor is pronounced 'kyart go lore' not 'kert go lower'.
Re. Jiffy: deifir is pronounced 'jeffir' not 'jifeer'.
Re. Whiskey: uisce is pronounced 'ish-keh' not 'wish-keh'.
Re. Phony: fáinne (meaning a ring) is pronounced 'fawn-yeh' not 'fon-yeh'. The á is lengthened like the aw in 'fawn'
Re. Brogue: bróg (meaning a shoe) is pronounced 'brogue' not 'brog'. The ó is lengthened like the o in 'Mona Lisa'.
Many English people seem unable to hear lengthened vowels. A good friend of mine cannot hear the difference between 'gron-yeh' and 'grawn-yeh'. Fortunately, her colleague, Gráinne, doesn't mind. She probably thinks "God love her, she's English. She can't help it.'😂🤣😂
Helen Trope That's the Munster dialect. There can be variations in the Connacht and Ulster dialects but they all lengthen the vowel when there's an accent over it.
Helen Trope The beauty of Irish is that pronunciation is very consistent. Once you learn how the combinations of vowels or consonants work, they don't change. You don't get oddities like the 'ough' in English words 'through', 'trough', 'bough', 'enough'. However, you have as much chance of guessing Irish pronunciation as guessing Welsh (i.e. a snowball's chance in hell).😜
I subscribed to this channel not only because of its educational content, but also because I LOVE THE IRISH, as do most ethnic Armenians who know history !
Thanks Paul. We appreciate that. Hope you continue to enjoy our videos. Maggie
The quintessential English 'Smashing' for something that is good is another word. It comes from the Irish 'is maith sin' meaning that's good!
Irish language is legendary and WILL come back
fuck that shit im from dublin and Irish is a hike to learn
i Smokesweed west brit
And therein lies the problem...... Someone who didn't have to fight for their identity or culture shows their indifference towards the language...... Whereas we in the north defend, embrace and cherish the native tongue....... Quite sad actually that in Ireland's capital city, trying to find an Irish speaker is like trying to find a hens tooth...... Quite rare
@@ck1643 they are way too liberal the big cities, but the real Irish LOVE this language
@@ismokesweed2105 good for you man!
Trump comes from the Irish: Everything about 'UMP' in the Ó Dónaill Irish-English Dictionary. Similar words: bump · dump · hump · jump · lump. The word Trum is than in the Irish a "back , or ridge".
So Trump meaning is Bump Back, Dump Back, Hump Back, Jump Back or just a Big Lump". Slán Abhaile :-)
Australians use the word chook for a live chicken. The greeting G'day said with an Australian accent, might come from the beginning of the Irish greeting I was told. We went to the Irish language theatre when we did a bus trip in Ireland.
A lot of Irish prisoners were sent to Australia, which is probably why the Aussies swear a lot. It's possible some words made it in.
I guess etymology is fascinating.
The American expression for goodbye, "so long", is the Irish farewell slán, as in slán leat, slán agat. The English word "smashing" is a direct lift off the Irish "is maith sin" - pronounced iss maw shin - that's good. There are loads of others. My favourite is the Scottish placename Argyle, which is becoming a common first name since the movie Braveheart - it's Éire gheall, view of Ireland! Some of those who bear the name wouldn't be happy to hear that. lol! 🇮🇪
Grew up in England. One of my earliest memories was of my Grandad from Lancashire, UK, talking about my "smashing" bicycle. He was Catholic and descended from Irish immigrants to the north. This explains a lot!
And OK ? Och Aye ?
Smashing from is Maith sin means that good griseack from griseach means fire embers.
Excellent series! Very informative.
Thank you. Glad you like them!
Below the walls of Dublin Castle, the Poddle a small stream that's now almost completely covered in, joins the River Liffey. Nearby there was a water mill, and as in many medieval cities refuse of all types went over (or under) the city wall. The mill was called Mullinahack, a name that remained on a small street that was there until late twentieth century developments demolished the whole street. Mullinahack is in Irish "Muileann a chaca". Caca in Irish (as in several other European languages) is human excrement. In a medieval document written in English it was referred to as Shyttclap Mill. The Dublin tradition of calling local landmarks by pointed nicknames is very old.
God love him his pronunciation is terrible
keith grant I love the way people here don't abuse him because of his pronunciation but rather show kindness and sympathy towards one who must struggle through life suffering from such a disability. 😅
@@Clodaghbob
Ah well, he is an amadán.
Tomás Ó Treasaigh So cruel.😂🤣😂. At least give him credit for creating the video at all.
Lalealyn I totally agree with you. He referred to a racist nineteenth century magazine in ENGLAND, a gang from Southwark in London in ENGLAND and a disreputable London family in ENGLAND. So obviously the word Hooligan originated in IRELAND. Ah, English logic. Don't you just love it!
You know, he really should be dunked in the Irish Sea ....but there's the dolphins to think about, ...and the seals and the seabirds, ...and, of course, we should all do our bit to keep our fishing waters as clean and unpolluted as possible.
So there's nothing for it. We'll all just have to grit our teeth, pay for a boat, and have him hauled around to the ENGLISH Channel. Can someone set up a Go Fund Me? 😂🤣😂
@@Clodaghbob Humour i pass
It happened between French and Irish as well, via the Normans. Irish for a room is 'seomra', which is pretty much exactly how the French to this day pronounce 'chambre'. I wonder did any originally Irish words make it into French?
France was Celtic originally so it's likely we had a common word.
@@manticore4952
In this case it was Latin.
Camera is Latin for room
Shanty is from sean ti ...old house
Claymore= Clea mor ..big left handed (sword)... (Scots gallic IS Irish.)
Baltimore = baile ti mor... Town of the big house.
Thank you Pat That's very helpful. Best wishes, Maggie
Go raibh maith agat, a Pat! 🍻🇨🇮
Sean cathair in Galloway Scotland, is spelt nowadays Sanquhar,but the auld yins still pronounce it Senncur,or old seat,seanfacail indeed. Carlisle, Carluke,Cardiff, are all derived from cathair, meaning seat(of power?)
The Irish for house is teach
@@IRISHBUTCHER is this a correction? Your Irish Grammer is lacking.
Better ask the bean an ti.
A lot of those I didn't know, but make so much sense when you put it together!! 👍
“Craic” is Irish...
It is an acronym of five other Gaeilge words:
Ceol (Music).
Rince (Dance).
Amhrán (Song).
Ionadh (Wonder).
Comhrá (Discussion).
If all five of these elements were present at any gathering - Be it a wedding or even a wake, then you were said to have “had the craic” and was an accolade as to how good the event in question was.
While there was indeed a Medieval English word, “Crack”, which referred to a talkative person, it is a common misconception that “Craic” derived from it.
Tá fáilte róimh go léir!
Well Feic...😃....I never knew that!
Not according to the Oxford English dictionary, nor the Chambers dictionary of etymology.
davidcufc OED: EST. 1857.
CDE: Est. 1867.
The Gaeilge Language: Est. Centuries ago.
Just saying... 😜
@@Ceannaire1 Well I'm not going to get into an argument over it, but Chambers traces the word to Old English 'cracian' . Old English dates from the 7th century to 11th century approximately. There are related words in modern Dutch and German, which again indicate an ancient Anglo-Saxon origin for the word.
@BemusedBarfly 'Craic' is almost certainly a back formation of the English 'crack'. As I posted earlier the word was around in the Old English period. If you can point me to its usage in Irish in the period from the 7th to 11th century then I'll be happy to agree with you.
This video is great. Nice and concise
:20 seconds in guy looks like he’s 10 feet tall!
I thought brogue was a Scottish word. Well I learned something new.
Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are pretty much the same
@Noel Ryan what?
Crackpots are up to all sorts of shenanigans.
Your missing one obvious word 'Trousers' An English word but from Gaelic Irish origin.
'Let's have a bit crack marra with our snap'
I believe Boycott was on Achill Island near Keem Beach
Dooagh village. Fond memories
What about 'shamrock' for the clover???
Seamrog means “little clover”, and it's Ireland's symbol because St Patrick used the three leaves to explain the Holy Trinity. Nothing worse that seeing St Patrick's Day adorned with four-leaf clovers!
Craic is actually from the Irish word Craiceáilte. Meaning zany, crazy or fun.
The English language has the distinction of having possibly the largest number of words in common use, most of these additions coming from Norman-French. Unfortunately, this has led some people to conclude it has lost its Germanic heritage. Not so, the English language has kept most of the original Anglo-Saxon words, but has embraced others, from various languages, to provide more nouns, or subtle/ circumstantial differences, we all know of the pig (Germanic), pork (Norman-French). While many other languages just don't bother with such distinctions. Another comment you often hear is, 'it derives from German', no it doesn't. The Germanic group of languages, which includes modern German, has many sub-groups (just like the Celtic being divided into Brythonic and Goidelic sub-groups). The English language is part of a sub-group within the Germanic Group and derives from old Frisian. This group includes several modern Frisian dialects, spoken by about 500,000 in Holland/Germany/Denmark. There is also a very distinct Lowland Scots language (not just a Scots accent), and two extinct languages in Southern Ireland belonging to this Frisian sub-group, having no connection to the Celtic Group.. If you research modern Frisian, their language is still closer to English than it is to Dutch or German,, although many Frisian words sound strange due to different vowels, and they have kept the original layout for composing sentences, the European use of genders, etc. Hope this is of interest. By the way, DNA testing seems to support the view that the English are typically about 45% Frisian, still their largest component, although they are also strongly Celtic too, Many Irish in the southeast are surprised to find they are near 20% British, deriving from the Norman settlements of the 12th century.
Divvy means mad and is used in Liverpool as an insult to call somebody daft or silly
Great stuff so a brogue is a shoe and not an accent. Remember the British said the spoke with a brogue meaning a shoe in the mouth!
Brog in turn came from the Norse Broc. Viking word.
John D. Moreau when I was younger some shoes were called brogues...eastern Canada in the 60’s
My Southern (USA) in laws were concerned that they would not be able to understand my because I might have a Northern "brogue".
Here is the eleventh one for you. The saying . DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. Is also an Irish saying . The British imposed a daylight tax in Ireland upon the building of houses , the tax was on the amount of daylight entering your home . That’s why if you look at pictures of old Irish homes, they all have small windows. Hence daylight robbery. And nothing has changed. To day we have a TAX ON FRESH AIR. only it’s called a CARBON TAX. See can we boycott that tax. Daylight robbery
Thank you Jimmy. That's very interesting. Best wishes, Maggie
Ireland Calling. Not sure it is. In England there was a window tax. Seems it was used in Ireland too.
Also there are still lots of old buildings in England with windows bricked-up to reduce the tax.
I think the window tax was essentially no more than our existing council tax. The number of windows being a quick and easy way to determine the size of the house.
@Twilight living Err....Dracula was written by Bram Stoker (an Irishman, incidentally, but inspired by a location in Scotland); not by Conan Doyle.
Exactly the same thing happened in England,people were taxed in relation to the size of their windows. The phrase could just as easily have originated over here.
I think the saying. Day light robbery came from time when ireland was governed by parliment in london.and the tax on windows. And that is prob where half doors came to ireland. Open top half let in daylight and air. And bottom half kept out the animals .
I love the Irish accent, To be sure 🤗
Of them all the origin of "whiskey" is the only one I'd heard of already. Could it be the Irish version of the Latin "aqua vitae"?
Latin comes from the Gaelic. Rome was a colony of Eire.
tenhirankei Whiskey comes from Uisce (water) Beatha (of life) but who knows which came first. Gaelic languages and Latin are separate. Perhaps the roman soldiers smuggled the stuff and its name) over Hadrian's wall from the Scots. I don't speak Scots Gaelic but I understand it's pronounced 'oosh keh'.
@@Clodaghbob Latin comes from Gaelic and developed along its own course. "Rome" is two Gaelic words put together- "Ro" means "before" and "Ome" means "body, earth, or grave". Together their mystical meaning is Before Heaven and Earth, or "Eternal City" hence Rome, the eternal city.
Tiber is also comes from the Gaelic word Tubber, which means well or spring of water.
Read, "Irish Wisdom Preserved in Bible and Pyramids". You can find it on archive.org
G. T. Void I confess I only did one year of Latin in school but we were taught that the two languages (apart from the odd word seeping from one to the other) were separate unless you go all the way back to Sanskrit.
In Irish 'ro' means very, 'tir' is earth or land and cliabhlach' is body. Are you referring to the Celtic influence in Europe, e.g. the goddess after which the river Danube was named is the same one as in the Irish 'tuatha Dé Dannan' (people/tribe of Dannan)?
Also, it's well known that there was a roaring trade along the Atlantic coast and the Egyptians were well aware of Ireland and the various clans. There was a lot of 'cross pollination' of culture but I've never heard it stretched to the point of Rome being an Irish colony.
G. T. Void I wouldn't set too much store by the writings of Conor MacDari. A lot of his ideas are considered a bit bizarre.
I’d never have guessed there were Irish origin words in Russian language ‘хулиган’ hooligan...pronounced more or less just the same...
the word Tory as in Tory party , boris party, the tories got their name from Thoraigh, "tory party" its an island off the coast of donegal, with its own equilivant of your royalty.
Thanks Liam. That's very interesting. Best wishes, Maggie
Or basically a rogue or thief,how very prophetic!
You sure it's not just short for, err, 'ConservaTORY Party', a Liam, a chara? ;)
@@danielvanr.8681 more like the things they talk,lavaTory
@@grahamfleming7642 Really? Toilet humour? That's all you've got? Oh my...
Fun and informative video-thanks for posting.
So now we know a little more about the name of the the character, Pussy Galore, in "Octopussy"....
She was in Goldfinger - the pilot played by Honour Blackman who was also Cathy Gale in the Avengers.
Whiskey is uisce beatha in Irish ...water of life ..
Plenty of Welsh words in English too 🏴🏴
One of the best, but a phrase really, English Cunt.... refers to a Boris Johnson
@@tonyjenkins7156 rofl
Sheep shagging?
I have read that there are few Welsh words in English - I'm not a Welsh speaker myself - compared with the thousands from Norman French and Old English. There are landscape terms like coombe, crag and tor. Natural history : gull, brock and dunnock and maybe penguin. Also Welsh concepts like druid and bard. I'd be interested if you have a list with lots more.
@@kjn6505 only on a Saturday night, after bingo and a shandy.
What about hullabaloo? Isn't that also of Irish origin?
Not the crack, it is the craic, as in crayk
Crack and craic are two different words one English, one from the Irish language, craic meaning fun banter even dance, that's why the saying is "craic Agus ceol" fun and music, slan
Slán
Craic is an english/scots loanword into Irish. The spelling Craic didn't exist before the 60's actually
Im from Ireland myself and its a loanword from England that they stopped using and we just kept on using it.
@@jimbobjimjim6500 No it's not you dope.
@@lorgansjester1404 Look it up man....Do you think i like that it didnt originate with Ireland?
I just knew that I'd come across comments criticising the English. Personally I have nothing against the Irish. Maybe the establishment does but not the general population.
if that's what you're looking for than that's what you'll find
Up Tipp
Name of that information
Very interesting 😎
Shenanigans might come from the Irish "Sionnach chuigim" (I play a fox).
Interesting trivia. In Irish a very pleasant talented person is a 'duine daithúil'. 'Duine' is a person and 'daithúil' is derived from colour.
A black person is a 'duine gorm' which is literally a blue person. You never use the word black 'Dubh' when referring to a human being.
BemusedBarfly I meant you never use it in relation to skin colour. The term 'fear dubh' (literally 'black man') means satan. In a name it usually indicates that the person is black-haired, which would have been a bit unusual for an Irish person. Occasionally it can mean that the person has a ferocious temper.
Heck yah i enjoyed this video, I cant wait to watch your others! And LoL where I'm from we know the more talkative people could be crackheads 😂 sorry i had to its just true
Don't do what my late mother did. While visiting her uncle I america, she got some funny looks ,when she was having a conversation with her cousins. She was telling them of a party that she a nd daddy had been at and said " boy the Craic was great ". Cue said uncle with an explanation.
Craic is a word that is reported as being from the North of England.
@@Kitiwake Craic is and Irish term is it not "craic agus ceol"
@@Kitiwake it's an auld wird, yaised in Scots,pre1600s(,an be Rabbie Burns,) probably entered Ireland through Ulster and went into Irish there.
The word víz (water) in Hungarian comes from the Irish (Celtic) whiskey.
Interesting, as Pannonia was Keltic then German, perhaps the Huns picked it up from an older population
@@jcoker423 Yes central Europe was Celtic, but Huns,and Hungarians have no connections,totally different people,and language.
@@markuslaszlo4069 Sure but the Hunnic confederation consisted of Germanic tribes who had absorbed Kelts. Just a thought
Great debates in the comments 👍👍
put the kibosh on
I m Irish and I like that video.... it’s interesting 🌸
Many more of our words come from the Vikings.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary www.etymonline.com/ the word “gob” is from the Irish for “mouth” and “puss” as in “a slap in the puss” is from the Irish for “face”. So a sourpuss is someone with a sour look on their face.
But you don’t hear those words so much these days.
Shtop yer whingin' or yeh'll get a dawk in de shnozzle!
You do in Ireland. Maybe not the younger generations as much like (because they are raised by Internet and American television), but the over thirties crowd anyway.
Is it true the word "dig," as in "do you dig it" comes from the Irish for "to understand"?
Tuig (tig), or thuigim (higum) means to understand or I understand
So, it wouldnt surprise me though ive never heard of 'you dig it' coming from thuigim... We dont really say 'you dig' in ireland...
It makes sense. If it's true, it would have happened via Irish immigrants though because we don't really say "you dig" in Ireland
The question for do you understand is An duignan tu? Sorry, I can't get the fadas to work. It keeps coming up with the French accent going down not up. Also, there are only 21 letters in the traditional Irish alphabet. We have a rule that combines 2 letters to produce a 3rd letter. An example is M joins with H to produce W, so good is maith, very good is an mhaith, pronounced on watt.
It could have even been due to the common English expression to 'twig' or understand something.
Some think that 'twig' might have come from Irish 'tuig', but others argue that this is not the case since it was common in the English of England but not the English of Ireland, and there is a pronounciation difference between twig and tuig
So no "O'Clock" then !.🤣😅😂😅
Yes,clock is derived from Celtic glog,bell
O developed from UA in Old gaelic which is same way of saying it..
The English language, has the largest number of words in the world(around 2,000,000), and if it didn’t have any Irish based words in it, then there would be something wrong with it, wouldn’t there........
Especially when the oldest groups of Britons, the Welsh, Cornish and Irish(and the people of Brittany too), were able to talk to each other, while only using their own language, and still know exactly what was being said........
Norrin Radd Welsh and other brythonic languages cornish and breton are not intelligible with irish ,scots gaelic is to some extent is,but certainly not welsh.I am irish and although my irish is not great i have enough to know that welsh is a totally different language in terms of vocabulary to irish
gallow glass. I am sorry but you are wrong, and this ability is an historic fact, and it was written about........ Also in Scotland(which is called scotland, because of the invasion of the Scot’s(possibly should have two T’s, but I cannot remember if it was not, but it doesn’t make much difference), which was a tribe/family from Ulster, has three different forms of language, and they are pronounced, Galic, gaelic, and garlic, so which scotch language are you talking about?????
gallow glass. Also, you’re so intelligent, that you’re forgetting that the modern languages, of all of these places are now different, to their forms back then, especially as Cornish died our and is therefore different to then, and the same thing basically happened to Welsh too........
So, for you to be suggesting, that because they are different enough now, that they are not understandable by each other, that this means that they must be have been different then, shows your lack of understanding of life, and how languages progress into different forms........
@@galoglaich3281 Thanks, I do believe there are some similar words, like numbers and anything basic like Summer-Winter. I also read Irish has words and structure similar to the semitic languages of the mid East. This makes sense if Gaelic Irish was the last place the Indo-European languages reached. Indo-European languages wre spread by horsemen into areas settled bu semitic farmers.
Further research with no bias is very interesting.
@@jcoker423 They are a good few words that are similar like ty in welsh and teach in irish both words for house and many others and the grammar is also similar,but not enough to make them mutually intelligible.Most celtic languages that is the surviving celtic language welsh included have some things in common with semitic languages welsh included,.The verb object subject word order for example ,i am not sure whether consonant changes are part of semitic languages,but they are feature of both welsh and irish.
Gaelic is spoken throughout Uk . Ireland in particular? Okay, probably even more? Shenanigan seems like a candidate..
Irish isnt spoken in the uk. Scottish gaelic is dying out as is.
Ireland isnt in the uk and gaeilge isnt wildly spoken either. Dying language.
@@whistlingbanshee5038 Missed Wales and Cornwall? Dying? Maybe? W hat has that to do with it..? Its about origins, ... duh! Read all about it; a country not in UK? Big news...
@@hirundine44 in wales they speak Welsh and cornwall is Cornish.
Neither of these are 'gaelic'. I (as an irish speaker) can mostly understand Scottish Gaelic though its not the same. Welsh is an entirely different language. And I dont know much about Cornish.
@@whistlingbanshee5038 they share a common root from thousands of years ago but have drifted apart over the millennia. Gaelic is part of the Q Celtic branch and Welsh, Cornish and Breton are from the P Celtic branch. Lots of similarities in terms of folk tales and culture though.
Gaelic isn't spoken widely in Ireland, never mind the UK. If it's about 10% of the Irish who speak it, I doubt you'll find more than a handful of linguists in the UK who do. Scots Gaelic (1.1% of the population of Scotland and shrinking can speak it) and Cornish (1% of the locals, although that's probably distorted by the sheer number of holiday homes) are kept alive basically on life-support due to generous funding schemes from local and national government. Only one that's in fairly rude health in the UK is Welsh.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about "craic". Craic has always been the Irish word for 'fun'.
Ya right the craic was mighty meaning laughter hark
Well... What ever the origin... Irish now.
The spelling craic only appeared in the 60's....
He's right about craic. You weren't alive two hundred years ago when it was an English word.
More words now unique to Hiberno English came from dialects of Middle English than from any other place.
@@Kitiwake Oh I agree.. its ours now. But it is still interesting to know it etymology
Paddy the baddie hooligan. 😂
Tá go leor snas ar an sluagh-ghairm sin agus ní deifir hooligan bróg bréige fáinne boycotted é a smideadh díreach chun an craic a bhaineann le scáineadh dom le huisce!
--- That's a' snazzy slogan galore and is not a jiffy phony boycotted brogue hooligan needing to be smashed to smithereens just for the craic of cracking me up with uisce!.
--- That's a' snas sluagh-ghairm go leor agus is not a deifir fainne boycotted brogue hooligan needing to be smashed to smidiríní just for the craic of cracking me up with uisce!
seam rog wtf
@Graham Reardon using all of the words from the video lolz
seam rog oh fook my bad 🤗 I didn’t even kop that.
That was to clever for me brother this
Lockdown is getting to me. 😂.
@@seamrog3593 Arra howld yer whisht!
I thought shenanigans was an Irish word.
Slogan - thought this was Scottish.
Póg Mo Thóin
Still missed a few ... but still interesting video. Had no idea about craic - crazy.
Why do you believe it? What evidence was actually provided that it is not an Irish word, apart from someone initially claiming it's not?
@@bluechip297 - Glad you brought that up - I only take material from Yidtube with a grain of salt. It's possible they're lying, but I see no reason why they would, and until I find evidence to the contrary, I reckon it to be true.
Not true crack is English craic as gaelgie
Incorrect about craic. Otherwise interesting
Why is he wrong?
@@olixz For the same reason I suppose that anyone is ever wrong about anything. But don't quote me on that.
If Dubh means 'Black', and Linn means 'pool', is the irish capital Blackpool?
I believe that Dublin and Blackpool are at opposite ends of a current of the Irish Sea which was likened to a black pool, hence those names
@@nicholasthorn1539 The makes sense, well done Nick.
Yes, At Dublin Castle there was a big black pool of water where ships with moor.
Eejit
Craic and Crack are two different words!
Well most of the English language is from a cross the sea ,latin, french,GERMAN with the anglo saxons,Scandinavian wih vikings.
That’s what makes it so good
True. The number of direct early imports from Latin is fairly low (hundreds) and many are high status things like candle, wine, rose, street. Of course, lots of new words made up later on used book Latin or Greek.
I think it's 1/3rd each of Germanic/Latin(French)/loan words. But in everyday speech it's 80% Germanic. The amazing thing (for all the pc people) is how few words made it from the native Britons (Coombe, Craig) into English. Sure place names, but not words.
Bare arse is also Irish
That Craic word is not in American English. Never heard it before.
Because it's an Irish word. A proper word if you use it in Irish Gaelic and local Irish slang if you use it in English.
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Says a commentator in ENGLISH
I dont believe you about craic man its an irish word
Seems to mistake Irish and Scottish gaelic a lot here.
They are essentially the same. Scottish Gaelic belongs of the ‘Q’ Celtic branch, which is closely related to Irish Gaelic and Manx. The other Celtic languages of Welsh, Breton and Cornish, which belong to the ‘P’ Celtic branch, are less similar.
craicionn
skin, Irish croiceann, Old Irish crocenn......
I'd imagine it had something to do with the crack of whip on someone's skin!
And we laughed and laughed!
Show me an english word and I'll find an Irish path!
Even 'she' is Irish. Sometimes I think you forget who was there before Rome!
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similar to the welsh word croen, also meaning skin, probably from the same root word.
@@bleddynwolf8463 you should look up Irish Goddess Anu Ana . Ireland was matriarchal before occupation.
The first half of Cardiff is caer most likely a high seat in celtic times. Cathair irish for chair or throne. I know you will read 'fort' in its etymology but you can find this at the start of place names all over europe! 😉
@@lallyoisin oh cool.
you cannot speak english without speaking french
It has more in common with German, and has loads of words derived from Greek and Latin.
Sorry especially craic seems dubious and the Irish pronunciation is well off. I will go do my research. Craic is a Gaelic word as far as I know but good effort
Thanks for your thoughts. That's where our research took us on craic, but we always welcome other opinions and information.
I thought so as well for years, but discovered it true etymology a few years back. The spelling Craic, actually didn't exist prior to the 60's
Well Ireland gave England David Bowie Irish Mammy, Paul McCarthy Irish parents no Beatles without him, Kate Bush Irish Mammy, the Oasis Bros Irish again, Boy George Irish, Dusty Springfield yeah guessed it right Irish, Ellis Costello, Johnny Rotten Yeah I know, Mick Hucknall Irish Mammy, to name but a few that are icons that made England admired all over the globe so U would say it’s England that took the lions share there, nothing new there then again.
Billy Idol's mother was from Kerry too. She married an English man.
Well that explains a lot was always at a loss to understand someone as good looking a very original talent & Cool 😎 was English lol.I think it’s high time they were all outed, so many celebrities in the UK keep their Irish genes a well kept secret for the most part.It’s a sad indictment of the prejudice & racism against Irish in England to this day.Hey Elvis was 100 % Irish those hips don’t lie 😂.Marilyn Monroe’s maternal Granny was a Dublin girl , were the girls are so pretty ain’t that the truth !!
That's great and all but who asked?
The Irish weren't immigrants in the 19th C. Britain and Ireland was the same state
The first people to invade engla d were the Irish into scotland, where there were no people at the time, Scotland, s meaning is, scotia meaning man from hibernia, the old name for Ireland all original Scottish people have hiberniean genes, its being proved, mabey that's why we like them so much
Lol ye're gone mad, so ye are!
@@misaeire It would be hard to invade England by going to Scotland. And yes, there were people there before the Scotti arrived.
@@misaeire There were Brittonic tribes there. Alba was formed when Pictish and Gaelic tribes united to see of the Scandinavian threat.
Then the Angles/Saxons came. And now we have Scotland.
That's as short as I can possibly make Scotland's complex, interesting, and oft over simplified history.
Ra
English is a mongrel language ..French , German , Frieisian , Danish , Greek , Roman ..it's all there
Smithereens..