Erse
noun[U]
uk/ɜːs/us/ɝːs/aCelticlanguagespokeninScotlandand Ireland:
Hetalkedto thecaptainin alanguagewhich helaterexplainedwas Erse, thetongueof the Isles.
It was in the Highlands that I firstsawpeatfiresandheardthe Erselanguage.
Synonym
Gaelic
- ScottishGaelicis also calledScotsGaelic(orsimplyGaelic) and sometimes Erse.
- In 1760 hepublishedFragments ofancientpoetrycollectedin the Highlands ofScotland, andtranslatedfromGaelicor Erse.
- Irishis theCelticlanguagespokenin Ireland; alsoknownasIrishGaelicandoccasionallyas Erse.
- ShelearnedSpanish,German,Arabic,Persian,Greek,Latin,Hebrew, and Erse.
Language names
- Albanian
- American English
- Amharic
- Angrezi
- Aramaic
- Ebonics
- Finno-Ugric
- Flemish
- Georgian
- Greenlandic
- Gujarati
- Hawaiian
- Manx
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Nauruan
- Nepalese
- Nepali
- Romany
- Semitic