Seonag Paterson

🌈 Dath Érenn in midaís ‒ All the colours of medieval Ireland 🌈 🌟I wish you an enjoyable Christmas 2020 with a colour-coded minimalist nativity. 🌟The whole Old Irish advent calendar 2020 is accessible at teapaw.org/i/events/1333102515869…. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o… 🌲🎁 🌈1

🌲5️⃣🌈 🌟OIr. buide corresponds largely to our “yellow”, referring to, for instance, flowers, the sun or cheese (painting Angela Emsen-West). In addition, it also covers other light hues like in blond hair, and it can describe the lustrous shine of golden objects. 🟡1

#SnaST 75/1 scatán [ˈskadaːn] "herring" dil.ie/36338 Cogn: W ysgadan, sgadan "herrings", OE sceadd "shad", ON skaddr, Norw. dial. skadd "small whitefish" Etym: unknown Loans between the various languages have been suggested (OIr. from OE, OIr. from ON, OE from OIr...

🎄🌟 Old Irish has 1⃣ article "in" that conveys definiteness, i.e. "the", but it has no special indefinite article. In any nominal phrase, no matter how long, definiteness can be only expressed once, e.g. tech maic ríg IN tíre "THE house of THE son of THE king of THE land". 🕧🎁