Manchan Magan
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
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The inhabitants of Britain and Ireland originally spoke another tongue, but English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprang. In Thirty-Two Words for Field, Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty, and oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon, imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic. It is a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture, and language.
Format: Hardback
Length: 386 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Discover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.
Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough, and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprang, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic.
In Thirty-Two Words for Field, Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty, and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honored way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow).
Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture, and language.
Weight: 416g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804184035
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