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 Formal or literary writing uses more Celtic and Semitic words; words from other Indo-European languages spoken in Apple PIE Eastern Europe are more colloquial or relate to everyday objects.
-Religious terminology tends to avoid Middle Irish terms in favor of Hebrew/Aramaic terms, because Middle Irish religious terms were associated with Catholicism. For example, 'sin' is חטא ''cheyd'' (m) instead of ''**pecădh''.
+Religious terminology tends to avoid Middle Irish terms in favor of Hebrew/Aramaic terms, because Middle Irish religious terms were associated with Catholicism. For example, 'sin' is חטא ''cheyd'' (m) instead of ''**pecădh''. Newer religious terms prefer direct Latin or Greek loans: for example, the word for 'religion' is itself ''relígio'' rather than ''**cřezăv'' (Irish ''creideamh'', literally 'belief').
 Ăn Yidiș is more willing to borrow international vocabulary than Irish.