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Thane (/ ˈ θ eɪ n /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane [1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay society ...
Toísech. A toísech or toísech clainne was the head of a local kin-group in medieval Scotland. [1] The word, meaning "first" or "leader" in Scottish Gaelic, [2] is first attested in the property records written into the Book of Deer some time between the 1130s and the 1150s. [3]
In the combinations sc/sg and st/sd , Irish now uses sc and st , while Scottish Gaelic uses sg and both sd and st , despite there being no phonetic difference between the two languages. [7] Most obvious differences in spelling result from the deletion of silent lenited digraphs (mainly dh , gh , and th ) in Irish in spelling reforms, which was ...
Polari Palare, Parlary, Palarie, Palari Region United Kingdom Native speakers None Language family English-based slang and other Indo-European influences Language codes ISO 639-3 pld Glottolog pola1249 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA ...
Prior the 1981 Gaelic Orthographic Convention (GOC), Scottish Gaelic traditionally used acute accents on a, e, o to denote close-mid long vowels, clearly graphemically distinguishing è /ɛː/ and é /eː/, and ò /ɔː/ and ó /oː/. However, since the 1981 GOC and its 2005 and 2009 revisions, standard orthography only uses the grave accent.
Mormaer. In early medieval Scotland, a mormaer was the Gaelic name for a regional or provincial ruler, theoretically second only to the King of Scots, and the senior of a Toísech (chieftain). Mormaers were equivalent to English earls or Continental counts, and the term is often translated into English as 'earl'.
Addled – 1. spoilt, rotten 2. empty, cracked or broken; e.g. addled eggs. Ager – ugly ( Zennor, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language hager) [4] Agerever – pollack ( Marazion, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language hager euver, meaning 'ugly useless') [4] Aglets – hawthorn berries.