Michael Meckler · @michaelmeckler
389 followers · 529 posts · Server mastodonapp.ukAmong the activities granting a dispensation from the prohibition on eating meat this Friday during Lent, when Saint Patrick's Day falls this year, is reciting the 'Lorica of Saint Patrick', though presumably not in its original Irish.
#StPatrick #SaintPatrick #StPatricksDay #Lent #Lorica #OldIrish #Irish #Gaelige
#stpatrick #saintpatrick #stpatricksday #lent #lorica #oldirish #irish #gaelige
Archaeodeath · @archaeodeath
148 followers · 73 posts · Server hcommons.social
Cilgerran's Inscribed Stone
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/cilgerrans-inscribed-stone-st-llawddogs-church/ #earlymedieval #Wales #inscribedstone #archaeology #ogam #Roman #Latin #OldIrish
#earlymedieval #Wales #inscribedstone #archaeology #ogam #roman #latin #oldirish
Φίλιππος Retsinokinitoc · @Kalogi
13 followers · 685 posts · Server masto.ai
Μυρμιδόνες του Αχιλλέα
RT @PIE_Animals@twitter.com
#ANT in #IndoEuropean: #Vedic vamrá- m., vamrī́- f., #Prasun womī, #Avestan maoirī̌- m., #Persian mōr, mur, #Baluchi mor, #Ossetian mælʒyg, #NorthernKurdish mûrî, #Greek μύρμηξ /múrmēks/, #Latin formīca, #OldIrish moirb, #Welsh mŷr, #Cornish pl. mwrrian, #Breton pl. merien…
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Freedom · @Freedom2B
169 followers · 518 posts · Server mastodon.socialEtymology of Ass
from the Etymology Online website:
The Old English "assa" is a back-formation from assen (she-ass), from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus.
"Assa" replaced the Old English esol, from Proto-West Germanic "asil."
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#SwearWords
#OldEnglish
#Celtic
#OldIrish
#OldCornish
#Latin
#donkey
#BackFormation
#etymology #swearwords #oldenglish #celtic #oldirish #oldcornish #latin #donkey #backformation