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Erse

  [urs]
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–noun
1. Gaelic, esp. Scots Gaelic.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to Gaelic, esp. Scots Gaelic.
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Erse   (ûrs)   
n.  

  1. See Irish Gaelic.

  2. See Scottish Gaelic.


[Middle English Ersch, Erisch, Irish, from Old English Iras, the Irish; see Irish.]
Irish Gaelic  
n.  The Goidelic language of Ireland. Also called Erse, Irish.
Scottish Gaelic  
n.  The Goidelic language of Scotland. Also called Erse.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

Erse 
c.1375. early Scottish variant of O.E. Irisc or O.N. Irskr "Irish;" applied by Lowland Scots to the Gaelic speech of the Highlanders (which is originally from Ireland); sense shifted 19c. from "Highlanders" to "Irish."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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