Erse

[ urs ]

noun

1. Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.

adjective

1. of or relating to Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.

Erse

/ ɜːs /

noun

1. See Gaelic
   another name for Irish Gaelic

adjective

1. of or relating to the Irish Gaelic language

Word History and Origins

Origin of Erse¹

C14: from Lowland Scots Erisch Irish; Irish being regarded as the literary form of Gaelic

Example Sentences

He never made the mistake into which two of his biographers have fallen of calling it 'Erse.'

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And by that time he spoke the old tongue of his youth, and the Erse way of speaking was forgotten.

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This was the more marvellous, as she was yet but an infant, and could say few words even of Erse, the only tongue she had heard.

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The Erse and the Gaelic tongues, you know, are very similar in construction, also the modern Welsh.

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It may be doubted if there would have been much loyalty taught to any government by the use of the Erse tongue.

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