Tuesday, April 26, 2022
People of the Same Stock
Thomas F. O'Rahilly, A Miscellany of Irish Proverbs (Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1922), p. 36 (#128):
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Is bádhach lucht éinchine.Related posts:
'People of the same stock are friendly.' Varr. báigeamhail or badhmhar (for bádhach); éinchéirde, 'of the same trade' (for éinchine). Begly (p. 212a) gives Is bádhach lucht aoinchéirde as the equivalent of "Birds of a feather flock together." Compare the Welsh Brodyr pob cerddorion, now understood as 'Musicians are brothers,' but doubtless handed down from the time when cerddorion would have meant (cf. Irish ceard, cerdaidhe) 'craftsmen' in general.
- Incompatibility
- Flocking Together
- Birds of a Feather Flock Together
- Like Is Dear to Like
- Akin and Alike
- Worlds Apart
