Concerns Old Irish derivates of nert: sonairt, sonartae, fornert, fornairt. Includes an appendix on the Celtic reflexes for the Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonants.
Studies the Celtic influence in the language of the following 7th-century Hiberno-Latin hagiological texts: Vita Patricii (Muirchú), Collectanea (Tírechán), Vita Brigitae (Cogitosus) and Vita Columbae (Adomnán).
Rev. by
Paul Russell, in StC 29 (1995), pp. 309-311.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 47 (1995), pp. 248-254.