The borrowings of words into Old Irish: part 2

Old Irish clann ‘plant’, ‘offspring, family, race’ / Modern Irish clann offspring’, ‘family’, ‘race’

Borrowed from Latin planta ‘sprout, offspring’

Many Romance words also come from Latin (by genetic inheritance): Sp. planta, It. pianta, Fr. plante

The borrowing of words into Old Irish: part 1

Old Irish póc 'kiss' / Modern Irish póg 'kiss'

Probably a loanword from the Latin phrase ōsculum pācis (kiss of peace), entering Old Irish via a Brittonic language.

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Programme for the CAMPS Research Labs 2025: 31 January 2025 (G0.10) Millie Randall Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies 28 February 2025 (G0.10) Anthony Candon  Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages 7 March 2025 (G0.10) Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) Poetry in Music. Medieval Troubadour Songs, from Manuscripts to Performance With live performances by Jacopo Bisagni (Galway) – medieval recorders and bagpipes 31 January 2025 (G0.10) Ian Wong Revisiting the English Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Politics, and the Meaning of the Mundane

We are looking forward to a great lineup of speakers for our CAMPS labs this term: