. Hawaiian Words of Wisdom 'Ōlelo No'eau
. Hawaiian Words of Wisdom 'Ōlelo No'eau - ??

. Hungarian sayings
. Hungarian Proverbs

. Hávamál

at Netútgáfan
. Hávamál: Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
at Harpa Hreinsdottir's site, in Old and Modern Icelandic.
. HÁVAMÁL
English translation at another site.

Irish

. Irish Proverbs

. Seanfhocal Archive . An Chrannóg - Lárionad Gaeilge
. Irish Proverbs Home Page
. Focal an Lae - The Word of the Day in Irish . Focal Archives . Seanfhocail at SMO . http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/..../seanfhocail.txt
. http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/..../seanfhocail/nua.txt . http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/DLYONS01_DATA
. General Irish New.

Manx

. Chapter 10 - Folklore of the Isle of Man, A.W.Moore 1891
. isle-of-man.com

. D10 - Manners and Customs (Proverbs) - Subject Catalogue Sub-Entry
. Index Page for Full Text
. Chapter 10 - Folklore of the Isle of Man, A.W.Moore 1891
. Chap VII Ellan Vannin
. Index to Manx Notes and Queries, 1904
. Notes 51-60 - Manx Notes and Queries, 1904
. Chapter 3 - Manx Yarns, 1905
. Index to Manx Proverbs and Sayings,1905
. pp 1-17 - Manxsoc vol 16 - Proverbs and sayings
. pp 017-027 - Manxsoc vol 16 - The Herring
. pp 027-041 - Manxsoc vol 16 - Sundry Proverbs and Sayings
. pp 1-13 Mona Miscellany No2 - Manx Soc vol 21 -'Proverbs and Sayings'

Scots Gaelic

. Seanfhaclan Gàidhlig at SMO New. New. . http://.../seanfhaclan/MacDonald.txt New.
. http://.../seanfhaclan/MacDonald_cuid.txt New. . http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/..../seannfhaclan.htm New.
. http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/.../seanfhaclan/eile.txt New.

. kortlandt: an old prussian proverb

Note.

"In their original languages" means simply the following: that these proverbs exist in their own right in these languages and that they are not merely modern reference translations (not merely translations from one modern language to the other).

Which is not to say that these proverbs are "native" to any place or language. For, many proverbs, sayings, and maxims, from around the world, have historical predecessors documented in ancient texts in ancient languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Pali, Sanskrit, and so forth. And even those ancient texts must have had their ancient sources.

In Europe, for instance, you can hear people asserting that their favorite proverb is part of their native local heritage (whether ethnic, linguistic, regional, or national), not knowing that, in fact, the proverb is taken from an ancient or medieval text written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Arabic, or from some ancient Egyptian, Levantine, or Mesopotamian text, or even perhaps from some not-so-old literary-work by Cervantes, Dante, Goethe, Petrarch, or the like.

The situation is similar in "Asia", with the number of documentable source languages being even greater: Sanskrit, Pali, Old Tamil, Chinese, Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Turkic, Javanese, Arabic and more.

Then, there are people who quote Shakespeare, ignorant of the fact that their little bit of wisdom isn't actually in Shakespeare, but is, rather, in the Bible, and that even when it is in Shakespeare, it is often no more than a Biblical allusion or a cultural or literary reference. (Shakespeare didn't pretend to be original.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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