#all scottish gaelic

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

Playlist Shuffle!!

thank u @minnarr for tagging meeee!! 💚💚💚

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

(i don't have a spotify, so i'll use the audio files i've already got downloaded on my computer, hope that's ok!! 😅)

òran a phrionnsa (the prince's ballad) by kathleen macinnes it's quite long bc it's like a romanticised story about bonnie prince charlie and the jacobites, with lots of allusions to mythology and folk history and such. idk i just think it's neat and i'm rly proud of myself for being able to recite the whole thing ok 😅

lon-dubh (blackbird) a gaelic cover of the beatles song by julie fowlis!!

sadhbh ní bhruinnealla by liam ó maonlaí (my fav cover as well! 🥰)

coisich, a rùin by capercaillie

hò bha mi, hè bha mi by julie fowlis

eilidh by robert robertson (my recording is BRILLIANT bc he's performing casually in a pub!! truly stunning!! sorry i just wanted to gush about it 😅)

cairistìona by kyle carey

thig am bàta by julie fowlis (again) (sorry i just really love her. this song SLAPS btw. THE DRUM BEAT is. amazing. and the story behind it is interesting as well 👀)

OK THIS IS. THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS. IT'S JULIE AGAIN. I HAVE TO SKIP IT NOW COME ONNNN

........it's julie again ._. im a broken birb ._.

FINE. YOU WIN MADAM.

hè gràdh, hò gràdh by julie fowlis. it's about cows. no i won't elaborate.

bodaich odhar hogha gearraidh by juLiE fOwLiS. it's about old men from hogha gearraidh fighting some other dudes or something. also there's fionnlagh and the piper's lad and tormod the deaf blacksmith asdfghjk fUCK THIS IM TIRED OF BEING EXPOSED. BIRB OUT >:V

TAGS. I DOn'T. JUST. EVERYONE. EVERYONE. U'VE ALL BEEN TAGGED. U ARE ALL TAGGED NOW. GOOD DAY SIR

[astriiformes]

Feels a bit silly this late in the day, but a belated lá fhéile Pádraig sona to the rest of the Irish and Irish diaspora crew.

[ferromagnetiic]

【 KID'S BIRTHDAY 2024. 】

          It is his birthday.

     The party hasn't even started and he is already drinking.

     He's ready to get wrecked and remember absolutely none of it tomorrow.

If you catch him when he's pissed enough, he might even be a little bit less horrible to you. Or maybe he'll be even more aggressive. Depends on how the night goes.

[meichenxi]

learning chinese like 

and then learning scottish gaelic like 

this word guga ‘young gannet’ is on lesson 3 of duolingo. if there is any better way to exemplify the difference between these languages than these two screenshots, I’ll wait

[historianofgalar]

Old Southern Galarian words for the first 11 Galarian Pokemon

This is explained in my kid's, @quillpokebiology , Geography" post, but Galarian has multiple dialects/languages. The Galarian I'm speaking is Hammerlock Galarian, but I grew up in a place that spoke Southern Galarian (specifically from the Crown Tundra). So, here are words for some of the pokemon there.

1. Suanáilte: Sobble

Pronounced "Su-ahn-alt-eh." From the words "Suaracha" meaning insignificant/paltry, and "conáilte" meaning blue.

2. Drúana: Drizzile

Pronounced "Ndrú-ah-nah." From the words "driùchd" meaning "Drizzle" or Dew" and "Gruama" meaning "Sad/depressed/gloomy"

3. Scaoilaghairt: Inteleon

Pronounced "Skeel-leerch." Combination of the words Scaoil, which means shoot and [to] fire, while Laghairt means lizard.

4. Sgôrnín: Scorbunny

Pronounced "Goor-neen." It still translates to Scorbunny, but I'll talk about it anyway. Sgôr is actually Lean (referring to Ballonlean), meaning Score, as sgór in southern Galarian means mountain peak/steep hill/pinnacle, etc. Coinín means bunny.

5. Bunineanach: Scorbunny

Pronounced "Bun-ye-nah." "Bun" means foot while "coineanach" means rabbit.

6. Ciceáluith: Cinderace

Pronounced "Kick-eel-lew-ah." It's a combination of the words ciceál, which means [to] kick, while luith means cinder.

7. Cipínaí: Grookey

Pronounced "Kip-een-ee". Uses the word cipín, which means small stick, [music] stick, and the stick that the bodhrán instrument is played with. The "nai" comes from "moncaí" which just means monkey.

8. Batanaí: Thwackey

Pronounced "Bah-teh-nee." Bata I'd another word for sticking, while the naí still comes from moncaí. (It also sounds a bit like Botany, which is the study of plants. I find that coincidence interesting).

9. Bodhráfear: Rillaboom

Pronounced "Bar-ah-far." Bodhrá comes from Bodhrán, which is an instrument that originates from Southern Galar. Fear just means man.

10. Leicag: Skwovet

Pronounced "Leh-cak." Combination of the words "leicean," meaning cheek, and "feòrag," meaning squirrel.

11. Sanntaille: Greedent

Pronounced "Sh-aunt-all-ah," (pronounce "Sh" with back of throat). Combination of the word Santach, meaning covetous, and saille, meaning fat (Kalosians might recognize that one one).

[pvffinsdaisies]

I have to be so honest I think for what Duolingo is and what it offers it’s wayyyyy overly criticised

[elibeeline]

If i open my silly little languages notebook and it manifests me back onto evening shifts again im gonna delete duolingo

[gaelicwordofthesometimes]

Just spent ages trying to find lyrics to Dòtaman's song An Tractar a th' agamsa

Finally found it in the depths of Facebook

Also have Einnsean Tractar agus Bhan and Pàdraig Post

[red-hemlock]

Headcanon: Notes

Scottish Gaelic is River's second language, and the one that she uses in order to write-down anything of note. Information on targets, notes on poisonous materials and her toxin formulae, evil schemes, plans for pranks, and sometimes even grocery lists... The fact that it is a dying language makes it deal to use as a cover, as most won't be able to read it at all.

It also 'helps' that her handwriting itself is pretty messy and difficult to decipher on a good day, even when it's done in English. Most people who pick-up any of her notebooks looking for a good read, will probably walk-away with a headache instead; and think she's writing, or trying to write, in Wingdings font.

(Likewise, you can also consider this an HC add-on to this golden-oldie HERE. The Lisa Frank love is still strong with River, and you can bet your sweet buns she still uses those folders and notebooks to house all of her dastardly designs.)

[bright-kid-burning-out]

My app is glitching so i made a meme

[cakeissweeterthanpickles]

AHHHHHHHHH 😵‍💫

[arcxnumvitae]

If I wanted to go into specifics, I could make things messier by saying that technically the dragons, fae, and all my other super long-lived muses speak a very old dialect of their respective languages (Mandarin and Scottish Gaelic for the fae/dragons), and also a very ancient accent. I didn’t want to drive myself crazy with technicalities though

[robocop1906]

Bogle

A Bogle is a Northumbrian and Scottish term for a ghost or a type of fairy, and is also an old name for a scarecrow. In fact, Bogles are often depicted like scarecrows, but far more terrifying and were free to move around. The name 'Bogle' comes from the Middle English 'Bugge', which gives us the term 'Bogey Man' or 'Boogie Man'. Today, when we wish to frighten small children, we say the word 'boo'; this comes from the first part of the Bogle's name.

Bogles in Ballygowan

It is said that Bogles never cause harm to mankind, but can cause fear and confusion, such as the case in Northern Ireland in the 19th Century. On the 31st March, 1866, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, The Larne Weekly Reporter had an article entitled, 'Bogles in Ballygowan', detailing strange goings on in a rural area. A certain house was attacked at night by stones being thrown through windows, and on one occasion through the roof. The local population were terrified. The disturbances stopped after several months and were blamed on the fact that the house in question had been refurbished using materials from an older house that was apparently the home of the 'little people'.

In Scotland, the Bogle is known as 'Tatty Bogle', who would hide himself in potato fields and either attack unwary humans or cause blight in the patch. The term 'Tatty' is Scottish dialect for 'potato.'

'There's a bogle by the bour-tree at the lang loan heid,

I canna thole the thocht o' him, he fills ma he'rt wi' dreid;

he skirls like a hoolet, an' he rattles a' his banes,

an' gi'es himsel' an unco fash to fricht wee weans.'

The Bogle by the Boor Tree

W. D. Cocker, 1882-1970

An extract from The Supernatural World of the Anglo-Saxons: Gods, Folklore and the Pagan Roots of Christmas and Halloween

USA paperback and Kindle

https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-World-Anglo-Saxons-Christmas-Halloween-ebook/dp/B078HGWMXP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515841151&sr=8-1&keywords=swaffington

UK paperback and Kindle

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-World-Anglo-Saxons-Christmas-Halloween/dp/1973588463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515841214&sr=8-1&keywords=swaffington

[mothmvn]

a bit belated but its SUPER cool of france to send a breton song

[fairymint]

i found the rest of my roots just now, and it all just leads back to scottish royalty. like, half biblical/hun scottish, half pagan-celtic scottish.

aka with another origin myth of. well. Manu and Yemo.

Man twin brother sacrificially murders hermaphrodite twin brother, creates the genders, and the rest of creation, with a third, Trito, ensuring the continuity of the sacrifice.

[virtual-hug]

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