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High register vocab should be from Celtic or from Hebrew/Aramaic depending on literary period. (cf. our Yiddish) | High register vocab should be from Celtic or from Hebrew/Aramaic depending on literary period. (cf. our Yiddish) | ||
* Heb/Aramaic words were higher register in older periods because religion | * Heb/Aramaic words were higher register in older periods because religion | ||
* The Gaelic Haskalah or the Judeo-Gaelic Enlightenment (JG אן השכלה גֿעל'אך ''ăn Hăscolă Ghełăch'', Heb. ההשכלה הגלית ''haHaskoló haGélis'') sees Judeo-Gaelic speakers discovering an older Gentile Goidelic literary tradition and seeking out older Goidelic and | * The Gaelic Haskalah or the Judeo-Gaelic Enlightenment (JG אן השכלה (גֿעל'אך) ''ăn Hăscolă (Ghełăch)'', Heb. ההשכלה הגלית ''haHaskoló haGélis'') | ||
* | *# The first phase consists of efforts to secularize Hebrew (à la our Haskalah). | ||
*# The second phase sees Judeo-Gaelic speakers discovering an older Gentile Goidelic literary tradition and seeking out older Goidelic and other Celtic sources for new Ăn Yidiș words, mainly cognatizations. (Gentile Goidelic varieties were already extinct by this time.) | |||
* Post-Gaelic-Haskalah writers criticize the new Gaelic loans as not being authentically Ăn Yidiș. Some use coinages from newly revived Hebrew, further enriching Ăn Yidiș vocabulary | |||
==Names== | ==Names== | ||