Crossword clues for erse
erse
- Poem, the first turned out in Irish Gaelic
- Peter Sellers holds tongue
- Irish poetry needing no introduction
- In the past
- Emerald Isle language
- Ancient Irish tongue
- Irish tongue
- Ancient Irish language
- Gael's language
- Scot's tongue
- Language that gave us "galore"
- Language that gave us "plaid"
- Language that gave us "clan"
- Language of Ireland
- Certain Scots
- The Irish language
- Scottish language
- One of the Celtic languages
- Language that gave us "bard"
- Highland language
- British Isles tongue
- Tam wearer's tongue
- Source of the word "galore"
- Old Irish tongue
- What Scots speak
- Tam-wearer's tongue
- Skye talk
- Scots' tongue
- Language that gives us "whiskey"
- Language that gave us "hubbub"
- Language spoken in Limerick
- Language of Scotland
- Language of old Ireland
- Language from which "whiskey" comes
- Highlander talk
- Goidelic language
- Cork tongue
- Certain Celtic language
- Caledonian tongue
- A language spoken in Scotland
- "Whiskey" source
- What some Irish speak
- Trumpeter and bandleader Hawkins
- Traditional language of the Irish
- The language Gàidhlig
- Talk of the Gaels
- Source of "clan" and "slogan"
- Scots Irish
- Old name for Scottish Gaelic
- Old Irish language
- Old Gaelic
- Of the Highlands
- Limerick words
- Language which gives us "clan" and "bard"
- Language that gave us "spunk" and "slogan"
- Language related to Manx
- Language of the Scotch Highlanders
- Language of the Celts
- Language of some Dublin Airport announcements
- Language of some Aer Lingus announcements
- Language of ancient Ireland
- Language in which "Hello, how are you?" is "Halò, ciamar a tha thu?"
- Language in "scatter seed"
- Language in "another serving"?
- Language heard on Cape Breton Island
- Language heard in the Outer Hebrides
- It's heard up in the Highlands
- It may be heard on the NPR show "The Thistle & Shamrock"
- It may be heard in the Highlands
- Irish Gaelic language
- Hibernian tongue
- Enya sometimes sings in it
- Early Irish tongue
- Dialect also called the Ulster accent
- Certain Goidelic language
- Center of fuller's earth
- Celts' old language
- Ancient language of Ireland
- Ancient Irish
- An old Irish tongue
- A language of Scotland
- A foreign language
- "Slogan" derives from it
- Hebrides language
- Celtic tongue of the British Isles
- European tongue
- Scottish tongue
- Highlands tongue
- Gaelic language from which "plaid" comes
- Robert the Bruce's tongue
- Highland tongue
- Relative of Manx
- Language that gave us the word "whisky"
- Irish offshoot
- Language spoken in Dingwall
- Gael's tongue
- Hebrides tongue
- Scots tongue
- Limerick language
- European language
- Irish language offshoot
- Talk of the Gaelic
- Language spoken in Stornoway
- Old World language
- Scots Gaelic, e.g
- Highland dialect
- Irish Gaelic tongue
- Manx tongue
- Highlander's tongue
- Gaelic tongue
- Skye writing?
- Scottish Gaelic
- Goidelic tongue
- Irish relative
- It's heard in the Highlands
- It's spoken in Stornoway
- Language from which "galore" comes
- Language of the British Isles
- Highlands Gaelic
- Celtic language
- Manx relative
- Celtic dialect
- Language from which "spunk" is derived
- "Plaid" and "spunk" derive from it
- Language from which "hubbub" comes
- The language GГ idhlig
- Language from which "clan" comes
- Language for a 37-Down
- Scot's language, say
- Language spoken around Loch Ness
- Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry"
- Source of the word "trousers"
- Language that gave us "smithereens"
- Cousin of Manx
- Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland
- Old language
- Hebrides dialect
- Old tongue of Ireland
- Goldelic language
- Goldelic tongue
- Ancient tongue
- Anagram for seer
- Scotch Gaelic
- Highland Gaelic
- Language for 8 Down
- Irregularly notched
- Gaelic anagram for seer
- Manx's relative
- Highlands dialect
- Language of the Gaels
- Highlands vernacular
- Highlanders' language
- Goidelic language of Scotland
- Language of 55 Down
- Highlands language
- A Celtic language
- Highlander's old tongue
- An old tongue
- Tongue for Brian Boru
- Additional
- Padraig's tongue
- Gossiper seldom bites tongue
- Lexicographer seeking to preserve minority language
- Language used by writer's expressive
- Language Beardsley uses occasionally
- River, not in my language
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erse \Erse\, a. Of or pertaining to the Celtic race in the Highlands of Scotland, or to their language.
Erse \Erse\ ([~e]rs), n. [A modification of Irish, OE. Irishe.] A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of or pertaining to the Celts of Ireland and Scotland," late 14c., early Scottish variant of Old English Irisc or Old Norse Irskr "Irish" (see Irish); applied by Lowland Scots to the Gaelic speech of the Highlanders (which originally is from Ireland); sense shifted 19c. from "Highlanders" to "Irish."
Wikipedia
Erse may be:
- An alternative name for any Goidelic language, especially Irish, from Erische
- A 16th–19th-century Scots language name for Scottish Gaelic
Usage examples of "erse".
The Catholic religion had been compulsory in South Ireland from 1944 until 1980, and the Erse language, although that was largely corrupted by unavoidable English words and locutions, had also been made obligatory.
He shoulde kiss his erse ere that he scape: And up the window did he hastily, And out his erse he put full privily Over the buttock, to the haunche bone.
You could pit a bit ay tit and erse in a paper read by schemies and it was oppressing women, but show the same in a French film and they lap it up and it becomes art.
I recollect having seen in the Scots Magazine, several years ago, a poem upon a similar tale, perhaps the same, translated from the Erse, or Irish, called Albin and the Daughter of Mey.
When I first noticed him he was chatting happily to an Irish monk in Erse, heedless of discreet shushings and murmurs of "
Lieutenant Penalski with his six Marines and their pilot, Sergeant Erse, would wait for the launches, then endeavor to return in the Cessna to their unit at Twentynine Palms.