Curlew

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A tedious journey through the Irish manuscripts showed a great reward

goblins can be used as a typical Irish, But research suggests that this perception is blarney.

The word "leprechaun" is not a native Irish scholars have said.

you have lost a hundred words revealed that from the Irish language, and unlocks The Secrets of many others.

Although "leipreachán" was said to have been in the Irish language for a long time, to the researchers, It Comes from Luperci, a group associated with a Roman.

The castle is also a purification ritual for a swim and, as the Luperci, the goblins connected with water, what may be their first appearance in the early Irish literature.

According to an Old Irish tale known as The Adventure of Fergus son of Léti, goblins carried The Sleeping Fergus to the sea.

The Team from Queen's, Cambridge, and spent five years studying ancient manuscripts and texts

A new revised dictionary, created by the research covers 1,000 years of the Irish language from the 6. until the 16th century.

A team of five scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Queen's University of Belfast effort carried out work over five years scouring manuscripts and texts, The Words that you missed or incorrectly defined.

your results can now freely accessible.

"ogach' or 'eggy' place was considered just the thing for setting up house in medieval Ireland

The Words brought life back into the project "ogach", which means "eggy" - But in a good way: If you had the choice of where they live in medieval Ireland , you want somewhere ogach - "rich in the balls".

On The Other hand, it is probably Bad News , when you hear the word "brachaid", meaning: "It oozes pus. "

The Scholars in front of other quirky words, such as "séis" - an old Irish word for a six-day-a-week.

The dictionary of medieval Irish is 23 volumes long. It extends over a period from 700 to 1700.

For Professor Greg Toner of Queen's University Belfast, was to find and document The Words of a labor of love of almost 20 years.

scientists have uncovered about 500 words lost in the Irish language

"people think, it is an old language, and there are no new words, But our interpretation missed," he said.

"We have more than 500 words, which has not yet been included. Among them, the word "séis is", meaning that a period of six days.

"That's great, if not disturbed, to work for a whole week. "

in Other words, include the Irish Curlew - "crottach" or "the crooked One " - possibly a nod to the bird with the distinctive Beak .

The old Irish word for Curlew crottach "

" The resource is for a full academic dictionary with scientific references, and reached a wide audience.

Prof Toner said, The Web version pulls of 20,000 users per month - about a third from Ireland , One third from North America and a third from the rest of The World .

"it was An important goal of our work is to open the dictionary, not only for students of the language, But to researchers in other fields, such as history and archeology, as well as for those with a General interest in Medieval Life ," he said.

The resource will be able to discover the user in every word to what was the old Irish word.

The First mention of the potato and how many different words there were for a knife or a sword.

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, a professor of Celtic and medieval studies at Cambridge, said, the dictionary offered "real insight into The Past and how people lived".

The modern Irish word for computer comes from a long time before they invented

were to suggest Some words that the medieval world that reverberates still, She Said .

One of these is "rímaire", the more modern Irish the word for computer (in its later form).

"In the medieval period, rímaire referred to is not a machine, But a person engaged in the medieval science of computistics carried out, the different types of calculations about the time and date, especially the date of Easter.

"So is it a word with a long pedigree, the importance of which has been adapted and applied to a modern invention. "

The researchers, the development of teaching materials for schools in the United Kingdom and The Republic of Ireland .

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Source of news: bbc.com