A new old resource to plunder for band names and song titles, pull out yizzer flutes and dance a merry jig.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49579940
QuoteA new revised dictionary created from the research spans 1,000 years of the Irish language from the 6th to the 16th centuries.
A team of five academics from Cambridge University and Queen's University Belfast carried out painstaking work over five years, scouring manuscripts and texts for words which have been overlooked or mistakenly defined.
Their findings can now be freely accessed in the revised version of the online dictionary of Medieval Irish.
Among the words brought back to life in this project are "ogach", which means "eggy" - but in a good way: If you were choosing where to live in medieval Ireland you would want somewhere ogach - "abounding in eggs".
On the other hand it is probably bad news if you hear the word "brachaid", meaning: "It oozes pus."
The scholars discovered other quirky words, such as "séis" - an old Irish word for a six-day week.
The dictionary of Medieval Irish is 23 volumes long. It spans a period from 700 to 1700.
"We found about 500 words that have not been recorded. Among them is the word "séis", which means a period of six days.
"This is great, if you can't be bothered working a full week."
Other words include the Irish for curlew - "crottach" or "the humped one" - and might be an allusion to the bird's distinctive beak.
http://www.dil.ie/
Ógach is pretty cool when you link it to the word Óg for young which I would imagine is where the Ó or O in the names O´ Brien etc comes from. My Irish name being O´´ Duinn, I am the little egg of Duinn. (My computer is set up in another language so the apostrophes etc are all fucked).
My interest in this kind of thinking was piqued recently by reading Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality, in he talks about the origins of the words/concepts of good and bad and good and evil. It is a fascinating read. The German Gut(Good) he links to the word Gott(God) and then extends it out to The Goths for example, how they saw themselves as Good and others as not. I won´t try to explain it here but well worth a read. Got me into linking up words in my own mind then from Spanish weak(Debíl) is pretty much the word Devil which goes along with what he argues for in the essay.
An interesting theory that was put forward a few years back was the name Dracula, how it came from the Irish Droch Fhola(Bad Blood)...nice name for an Irish black metal band though. The following article seems to destroy that myth, but there is controversy still around the idea by the looks of things. https://swanriverpress.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/sorry-lads-draculas-not-irish/
Anyone study philology or linguistics here? I did linguistics in College, wish I could remember some of it :abbath: