Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word ERSE
ERSE
Definitions of ERSE
- Either of the Gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland.
- Connected with Ireland or the Highlands of Scotland, or to the Gaelic languages spoken in those places.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ERSE in a Sentence
- Some versions identify the stone brought by Fergus with the Lia Fáil, in Scottish Gaelic (or Erse) originally rendered "Lia Fàil" and, after Twentieth Century alphabet revisions that saw the Grave accent replaced with the Acute accent, "Lia Fáil" (Scottish Gaelic for "stone of destiny", from "Lia", meaning "stone", and "fàil", meaning "fatal", and of the same etymology as English Fate).
- By the early 16th century what was then called Inglis had become the language of government, and its speakers started to refer to it as Scottis and to Scottish Gaelic, which had previously been titled Scottis, as Erse (Irish).
- The model originates ultimately in the later Middle Ages, when the Germanic-speaking subjects of the Scottish king began to think of themselves as Scots, and began the ethnic and cultural disassociation of Scottish and Gaelic, previously two identical concepts, by calling their own brand of English Scottis and renaming Scottis as Erse.
- These four adventurers must then explore the lands of Arroya battling a plethora of monsters; which include various races of goblins, various lycanthropes, giant slugs, anthrodons, various demons, and villainous leaders such as the tribal shaman Erse, the orcish hetman, the Demon Prince Erranugh, and a vampire.
- In addition to his bi-lingual childhood tongues of Erse (Irish) and English he was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German and the First Nations languages of Cree, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Blackfoot, Sarcee, Assiniboine and Arapaho.
- From 1500 on, Scotland was commonly divided by language into two groups of people, Gaelic-speaking "Highlanders" (the language formerly called Scottis by English speakers and known by many Lowlanders in the 18th century as "Erse") and the Inglis-speaking "Lowlanders" (a language later to be called Scots).
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