Editing Hogmanay (section)

===Possible Goidelic etymologies===
[[File:Edinburgh, UK - panoramio (40).jpg|thumb|right|Fireworks in Scotland's capital city, [[Edinburgh]], as part of the 2011 Hogmanay celebrations]]

The word may have come from the [[Goidelic languages]]. [[James George Frazer|Frazer]] and Kelley report a [[Manx language|Manx]] new-year song that begins with the line ''To-night is New Year's Night, Hogunnaa'' but did not record the full text in Manx.<ref>Frazer, Sir James George ''The Golden Bough'' 1922</ref><ref>Kelley, Ruth ''The Book of Hallowe'en'' (1919)</ref> Kelley himself uses the spelling {{lang|gv|Og-u-naa... Tro-la-la}}<ref>Y Kelley, Yuan ''Fockleyr Gailckagh as Baarlagh'' (1866) The Manx Society</ref> whereas other sources parse this as {{lang|gv|hog-un-naa}} and give the modern Manx form as ''Hob dy naa''.<ref name = Folklore>''Folk-lore – A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution and Custom Vol II'' (1891) The Folk-lore Society</ref> Manx dictionaries though give {{lang|gv|[[Hop-tu-Naa]]}} ({{IPA|gv|hopʰ tθu neː}}), generally glossing it as "Hallowe'en",<ref name=Brod>Broderick, G. ''A Handbook of Late Spoken Manx'' Niemeyer (1984) {{ISBN|3-484-42904-6}}</ref><ref>Fargher, Douglas ''Fockleyr Baarle-Gaelg'' (1979) Shearwater Press {{ISBN|0-904980-23-5}}</ref> same as many of the more Manx-specific folklore collections.<ref>Moore, A.W. ''Manx Ballads & Music'' (1896) G R Johnson</ref>

In this context, it is also recorded that in the south of Scotland (for example [[Roxburghshire]]), there is no {{angbr|m}}, the word thus being ''Hunganay'', which could suggest the {{angbr|m}} is intrusive.<ref name = Folklore/>

Another theory occasionally encountered is a derivation from the phrase {{lang|gd|thog mi an èigh/eugh}} ({{IPA|gd|hok mi ˈɲeː|}}, "I raised the cry"), which resembles ''Hogmanay'' in pronunciation and was part of the rhymes traditionally recited at New Year<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62422547 |title=Origin of Hogmanay |date=5 January 1940 |work=Townsville Daily Bulletin |access-date=1 January 2012}}</ref> but it is unclear if this is simply a case of [[folk etymology]].

Overall, Gaelic consistently refers to the New Year's Eve as {{lang|ga|Oidhche na Bliadhn(a) Ùir(e)}} ("the Night of the New Year") and {{lang|ga|Oidhche Challainn}} ("the Night of the [[Calends]]").<ref>MacBain, A. ''Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language'' (1896)</ref><ref>Dwelly, E. ''The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary'' (1941)</ref><ref>Mark, Colin ''The Gaelic-English Dictionary'' (2004) Routledge {{ISBN|0-415-29761-3}}</ref>