On ‘rhyming jingles’, often consisting of nominalised imperatives, e.g. techt tuidecht, aig thaig, soí toí, áin tháin (ám [t]hám in LL 34840 corrupt); cf. sa(i)n cha(i)n, baí chaí, ócaib tócaib — all denoting `(quick) movement to and fro’. Some discussion of rhyming combinations of two words in ModIr.
naíden < noínden and the occasional development nd > d in Middle Irish, e.g. (Slíab) Monduirn > (Slíab) Moduirn, Illandon > Illadon, tindnacol > tidnacol.
From the Book of Leinster 189a3-189b36. With English translation and notes. Includes some discussion and rhythmical analysis of ‘identification scenes’.
O’Rahilly (Cecile): Táin bó Cúailnge: recension I.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. xxiv + 312 pp.
Edition based on LU, supplemented by YBL; with English translation and notes.
Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 16 (1979), pp. 296-300.
Daniel F. Melia, in Speculum 53/3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 607-609.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in StH 17-18 (1977-1978), pp. 215-216.
ad DIL D, 304.17-24, where the phrase dóig ám ‘for, because’ (< Middle Irish conjunction dáig + emphasizing particle ám) is erroneously given under the adjective dóig.
Discusses is ed mod, is ing, is ar éigin ‘scarcely, hardly’, and is obair ‘it is hard, difficult’. Suggests that ModIr. fhóbair, (fh)obair ‘almost’ represents a confusion of impersonal verb fóbair and use of obair replacing earlier mod.
ad Aodh Mac Aingil’s Scáthán shacramuinte na haithridhe line 4940 (as ed. by C. Ó Maonaigh 1952; see BILL 8150). Argues that in do-gheibh aibche iomchuibhghe sinn the adjectives are not plural forms, but rather spellings, after phonological convergence, for singular (classical and older) do-gheibh abaigh iomchubhaidh sinn.
Provides emended translations of a number of texts based on C. O’Rahilly's interpretation of cadessin as an intensive / emphatic form (Táin bó Cúailgne: recension I (Dublin, 1976) p. 255).
Celtica 15 (1983): Cecile O’Rahilly memorial volume.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 23 (1986), pp. 354-356.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 243-245.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 303-304.