LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.04.16 (08) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at btinternet.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.04.14 (10) [E]

At 23:57 14/04/03, Críostóir Ã" Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>For the record, how much influence has Gaelic had on Scots in a) phonology;
>b) syntax and c) lexicon?
>
>And what influence - if any is still detectable - has Strathclyde British
>(also known as Cumbric or Cumbrian) had?

Gaelic's most obvious (although certainly not its only) influence on
Scots vocabulary, is a range of words for natural features. Some examples
are: _glen_ (G. _gleann_, a valley); _ben_ (G. _beinn_, a mountain);
_drum_ (G. _druim_, a ridge); _corrie_ (G. _coire_, a hollow or gully in
a mountainside); _loch_ (G. _loch_, a lake); _skerrie_ (G. _sgeir_, a
reef); _linn_ (G. _linne_, a pool).

The construction used in Scots as an equivalent of English "whose" has
an exact match in (Scottish) Gaelic, although I'm not 100% sure as to
who borrowed from whom:

"Those are the people whose house I bought".
"That's the fowk that A bocht their hoose".
"Siud na daoine a cheannaich mi an taigh aca."

To my knowledge, today's only remnant of ancient British is in the form
of place-names or elements in them.

Wi guidwull tae ane an aw,

Colin Wilson.

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