in this video we're going to take a look at some of the similarities between the irish language
and portuguese now needless to say these are two very different languages they have evolved
differently over time but having said that i'm sure you're going to find some of the things
they have in common interesting to say the least so one of the first things i noticed when i was
researching for this video was that neither irish nor portuguese use the letters k w x or y in their
respective alphabets but the parallels don't just end there if we take a look at the word portugal
itself for example this is taught to come from two words portus and cale so if we start with cale
first this came about from ancient early celtic settlers that built a settlement around the mouth
of the douro river in modern day portugal these early settlers were said to have called this place
cale this was an ancient protoceltic word for a fort or a harbour in fact
calafort is a modern irish word for harbour or port calafort later on when the romans took over
they brought the name portus to the equation and over time portus and cale came together to form
the name of the modern day country that we call portugal
so let's move on now & compare some irish & portuguese words so we can look at their similarities and as usual
let's start with some numbers so if we take these numbers here 1 to 10 you'll notice that there are quite
a few similarities there in fact they're all fairly similar to some extent with the possible
exception of the number five let's go down to the irish ones first
like a hundred thousand welcomes, céad míle fáilte
so míle is the irish word for a thousand and then in portuguese it's quite similar mil
let's move on to some words here now so we're going to start start with this one here
tomorrow so let's look at the irish and portuguese words for tomorrow so in irish amárach
is the irish for tomorrow in portuguese amanhã
cold is next in irish cold is fuar in portuguese frio
let's look at chips now or french fries as they're sometimes called so in portuguese it's fichas fichas
which is very similar to the irish verb for fry so that word there frioch in irish frioch is not
the irish for chips it's the irish verb to fry so it has certain similarities with the portuguese
word fichas for french fries or chips the irish word for chips incidentally is sceallóga
the verb in irish to work is obair and in portuguese obra
a priest in irish is sagart and in portuguese sacerdote
in Irish mór is big mór in portuguese the word morro is not necessarily the portuguese for big or large
but it can mean to swell or enlarge in portuguese morro so a certain similarity there with the irish word
mór which means big, next then is the irish verb scríobh which is to write scríobh
to write in portuguese escrever, the irish for whiskey is uisce beatha and in portuguese uísque
so if you look closely at that portuguese word for whiskey
uísque it has an uncanny resemblance to this word here uisce which is the irish word for water uisce
let's move on to a rabbit now so the irish for a rabbit is coinín in portuguese coelho
a dog in irish can be known as a cú which is technically a hound but it's more or less
the same thing cú as in cú chullainn the hound of cullainn cú for a hound in portuguese then cão
the sea in irish is muir
in portuguese mar mar which brings us on to the irish for seafood which is
bia mara bia mara for seafood in portuguese you'd say frutos do mar frutos do mar
for seafood the irish word to sing is can and in portuguese cantar a book in irish is
leabhar in portuguese livro the morning in irish is maidin in portuguese manhã
a boy in irish can be known as garsún in portuguese garoto
an egg in irish is ubh in portuguese ovo
and gold in irish is ór in portuguese ouro
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