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Erse
[ urs ]
noun
- Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
adjective
- of or relating to Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
Erse
/ ɜːs /
adjective
- of or relating to the Irish Gaelic language
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Erse1
C14: from Lowland Scots Erisch Irish; Irish being regarded as the literary form of Gaelic
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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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