in this video we're going to compare the irish language with polish now of course irish and
polish are very different languages they are from different branches of different families so
irish is from the celtic family whereas polish has slavic roots they have evolved differently
over time but having said that i have discovered some really interesting parallels between the
two languages which i'm going to share with you in this video
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okay so let's get back to this video then comparing irish with polish let's start off
with some numbers first of all i will go through the irish numbers and then the polish ones
now let's look at the polish numbers
so you can see there are certain similarities
but some are quite different for example five in irish is a cúig but it's piec in polish
some similarities then two a dó and dwa as well as osiem in polish is eight
and a hocht in irish there is a certain parallel there between those two numbers
and a deich in irish is ten and dziesiec in polish you can kind of hear that
deich/dzies kind of similarity there let's compare them then one by one
some polish and irish words kind of look more similar than they sound
as you're about to see here so the irish for dead is marbh and in polish martwy
the irish for voice is glór or you could also say guth and in polish glos
so they kind of look more similar than they sound the irish for a donkey is asal
and in polish osiol in irish sean is old sean and in polish stary
but what i found interesting is the irish word for history is stair which is very very similar
to the polish word for old which is stary in irish iasc is fish iasc and in polish it's
ryba and what i found fascinating was that the irish for shrimp is ribe róibéis which ties in
directly with the polish word for fish ryba and the polish word for shrimp is krewetka
as regular viewers will know one of my favorite words in irish is bóín dé and that is lady bird
and it's a very poetic description it means god's little calf so bóín is calf so bó is cow and then
whenever you put an ín after it becomes little or small or young and then dé refers to god
so bóín dé is god's little calf it's a word to describe a ladybird, in polish it's boza krowka
so that also means god's little calf it's one of the ways to describe
a ladybird in the polish language boza meaning god and krowka meaning calf, boza krowka
god's little calf
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