Erse

American  

[urs] / ɜrs /

noun

1. Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.

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adjective

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

Erse British  

/ ɜːs /

noun

1. another name for Irish Gaelic

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Irish Gaelic language

Etymology

Origin of Erse

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

Example Sentences

Compounded of puns, disjointed syllables, half-words, it is closest to English, but Erse, Latin, Greek, Dutch, French, Sanskrit, even Esperanto appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's a beautifully ornamented one near Ballymoran, though the carving is more like Celtic than Teutonic work—those strange interlacing animals which you find in ancient Erse manuscripts.

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela

Still less numerous are students of the Irish language, who here find what they need, the Erse poetry on the left page, the literal translation on the right....

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan

O'Sullivan Og opened his mouth; he was on the point of interposing, but he thought better of it, and shrugged his shoulders, muttering something in the Erse.

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John

This, at least, I find to be the case in the old Erse and Islandic languages, as well as in the more modern Italian, French, Spanish, and English tongues. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan