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Irish language
Irish language also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages ). The history of Irish as a literary language falls into three periods: Old Irish (7th-9th cent. AD), Middle Irish (10th-16th cent.... Read more
Celtic languages
Celtic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. At one time, during the Hellenistic period, Celtic speech extended all the way from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula in the west across Europe to Asia Minor in the east, where a district still known as Galatia recalls the former ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Erse"

Erse
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Erse, a term formerly used for Irish Gaelic (i.e. Irish) or occasionally (and inaccurately, since the term is the Lowland Scots word for Irish) for Scots Gaelic.
Gaels (Irish)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...trend is in sight. Linguistic Affiliation. Gaelic, Irish, or Erse is an ancient language of the Indo-European Family. It is...languages, in addition to Irish, are Scottish Gaelic (also called Erse), Welsh, Breton or Armoric, Cornish (extinct in 1777...
Macpherson, James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Blair he then produced Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated from the Galic or Erse Language (1760). Interest in primitivism was at this period considerable; pressed on by his admirers, Macpherson travelled...
Irish language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Irish language also called Irish Gaelic and Erse, member of the Goidelic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Celtic languages ). The...
Celtic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the Celtic subfamily is Goidelic, to which Irish (also called Irish Gaelic), Scots Gaelic, and Manx belong. The term Erse is used as a synonym for Irish and sometimes even for Scots Gaelic. All the modern Goidelic tongues are descendants of the ancient...
immigration
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...to the British Isles from the European mainland centuries before the Roman invasion of the 1st cent. ad. Celtic languages, Erse, Gaelic , Manx, and Welsh, continue to be spoken in Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, and Wales. In Cornwall, the Celtic...
GAELIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Gaelic? Does she speak Gaelic?). In Ireland it is generally known as IRISH , and formerly in Scotland was referred to as both Erse and Irish . Gaelic was the principal language of Ireland before and after Norse settlement in the late 8c and remained so until...

Dictionary entries related to "Erse"

Erse
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Erse Irish, esp. applied to Irish and Scots Gaelic. XIV ( ersche ). early Sc. var. of IRISH .
Scotland
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...Franciscan missionaries resisted the tide of Calvinism in the Highlands. The now archaic English word for Scottish Gaelic, Erse [Irish], signals a historical perception of this unity. But in the mid-18th century the enormously popular ‘...
traverse
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English trav·erse / trəˈvərs / • v. [ tr. ] 1. travel across or through: he traversed the forest...

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Trouble on the island of Erse
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 2/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...island of emerald green where the native people speak Erse and call themselves Erse. They have been warring among themselves for millennia...cursory examination reveals subtle differences in the Erse factions. One side, controlling the north of the...
ERSE Announces Its Proposal For Tariffs In 2009 And Parameters In 2009-11
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...the following news release: For 2009, ERSE proposed a 4.9% increase in average...The Portuguese Electricity Regulator ("ERSE") announced its proposal for electricity...regulatory period 2009-11. For 2009, ERSE proposed a 4.9% increase in average...
ERSE Announces Parameters, Tariffs and Prices for Electricity and Other Services for 2009-2011
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 12/16/2008; 318 words ; ...release: The Portuguese Energy Services Regulatory Authority ("ERSE") made public yesterday the final document relative to the...any material change when compared to the proposal presented by ERSE on last October, 15th. Recall that following the disclosure...
Erse-while friend
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 7/13/2007; 250 words ; Yer man wi' tha Erse name, McCausland, has been screevin agin tha gulderdickers (thems that spakes tha Erse leid). Tha thang is but, that he disnae spake a wurd a' tha hamely leid a' scots at aw. Wud he nat be safer aff gaen oot an pickin...
Milligan makes 'erse' of himself over Hogmanay
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 12/30/1998; ; 595 words ; ...course, correct, although it's as illuminating as saying War and Peace is about Russia, but the claim about Gaelic - or Erse as it was referred to by the early Lowland Scots - has once again landed Mr Milligan in hot toddy. After the Lord Provost had...
Genomic analysis of the unfolded protein response in Arabidopsis shows its connection to important cellular processes
Magazine article from: Plant Cell; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...element (UPRE), ER stress-response element I (ERSE-I), and ERSE-II. The UPREs correspond to TGACGTGG/A in mammals...and to CAGC GTG in yeast (Mori et al., 1996); ERSE-I corresponds to CCAAT-N^sub 9^-CCACG (Roy...
Imagine Software Expands into South American Market with Nitor Investments.
Business Wire; 11/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...presented a challenge. According to Julio Erse, partner and co-founder of Nitor...and time-to-market considerations," Erse said. "Our task then was to find a vendor...on why Imagine won Nitor's business, Erse remarked: "First, Imagine's real...
Studies from Bogazici University, Institute of Environmental Science describe new findings in life sciences.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 8/25/2008; 679 words ; ...than the anaerobic one, wrote A.S. Erses and colleagues, Bogazici University...system with the same recirculation scheme. Erses and colleagues published their study in...additional information, contact A.S. Erses, Bogazici University, Institute of Environmental...
Tunnel a much better option
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK); 12/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...Kingswells, Aberdeen. Scots, Gaelic, Erse, Anglic SIR, - Ewan MacIntyre (Letters...people and their language. Also, use of "Erse" (or "Ersche") as a name for Gaelic...as a name for Anglic language. Use of Erse is now largely historic, but Gaelic has...
The Crack: A childhood experience.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 9/22/2001; 700+ words ; ...mak out a glisk o the Braid amang speikars o Erse. Sen the'r nae wirds for "ay" an "naw" in Erse, a fair fek Norlin Gaels maks uiss o the Scots...wait on a bodie in Scots. At laest hauf the Erse speikars in Belfast says "waitin on" anaw...