Words and Proper Names

Traces the West Munster Irish (and Scottish Gaelic) emphasizing use of is ann…‘in (actual) fact’ (= is amhlaidh…) back to Middle Irish.

[1.] Two-gesture segmental matrix; [2.] Dependency Phonology; [3.] The lenition series in Irish; [4.] Lenition of stops; [5.] Lenition of liquids: /m/ → [ɯ̃]; [6.] Lenition of the liquids: /L N/ → [l n]; [7.] Lenition of the liquids: /R/ → [r]; [8.] Lenition of /s/; [9.] Lenition of /f/; [10.] Lenition in initial clusters; [11.] Summary.

Examines the Irish adverbs of place, with particular emphasis on the directional prefixes t-, s-, an-.

On the confusion of the acc. sg. fem and acc. pl. forms of the infixed pronoun.

Discusses the OIr. 2nd and 3rd pl. infix pronouns -s- and -n-.

Republ. in Lindeman studies, pp. 178-181.

[1.] Evidence for Gaelic speech in Banffshire in 1881; [2.] Evidence for the Gaelic dialect of Banffshire. Features with corresponding maps discussed incl.: 1. -am, -om; 2. -all, -oll, -ann, -onn; 3./4. Preaspiration before t and p; 5. -adh > Ø; 6. bh > u; 7. Slender -nn > [ŋʹ]; 8. -m + f- > -m + b-; 9. -n + s- > -n + z-; 10. -n + ʃ> -n + ʤ; 11. ‘east’ (sìos), ‘west’ (suas); 12. down(wards) (a-bhàn); [3.] Conclusions.

[1.] Evidence for Gaelic speech in Banffshire in 1881; [2.] Evidence for the Gaelic dialect of Banffshire. Features with corresponding maps discussed incl.: 1. -am, -om; 2. -all, -oll, -ann, -onn; 3./4. Preaspiration before t and p; 5. -adh > Ø; 6. bh > u; 7. Slender -nn > [ŋʹ]; 8. -m + f- > -m + b-; 9. -n + s- > -n + z-; 10. -n + ʃ> -n + ʤ; 11. ‘east’ (sìos), ‘west’ (suas); 12. down(wards) (a-bhàn); [3.] Conclusions.

Discusses variation between initial b- and m-, and prosthetic s-.

On Ir. sacadh and its relationship to Engl. sock ‘strike hard’ and MLat. saccāre.

Argues that OE sacerd is a loanword from Old Irish.

Lists and discusses the titles of officials of the church of Armagh found in early Irish chronicles: 1. epscop; 2. tánaise epscoip; 3. ap; 4. tánaise abbad: 5. secnap; 6. comarba; 7. airchinnech; 8. fosairchinnech; 9. maer (or ardmaer); 10. maer bachla Ísa; 11. ferthigis; 12. scríbneoir; 13. anchara; 14. fer léiginn; 15. toísech macc léiginn; 16. sacart; 17. anmchara; 18. senchaid; 19. ecnaid; 20. suí; 21. ardollam; 22. cenn bocht; 23. príomhchalladóir; 24. príomhchríochaire; 25. leabhar coimhéadaigh.

1. Introduction; 2. The characteristics of madness; 3. A tale of the novice; 4. The curse of a sacerdos; 5. A battlefield experience; 6. The consumption of contaminated food or drink; 7. The loss of a lover; 8. The madman takes to the wilderness; 9. The madman perches on trees; 10. The madman levitates or performs great leaps; 11. The madman is very swift; 12. The madman is restless and travels great distances; 13. The madman experiences hallucinations; 14. The madman collects firewood and goes about naked; 15. The madman observes a specialdiet; 16. The act of coition; 17. The intervention of a sacerdos; 18. Conclusions: geltacht is a sub-theme of the parent theme of the novitiate. Cf. P. Ó Riain, Boundary association in early Irish society, StC 7 (1972), pp. 12–29.

Argues that shader-names derive from ON sǽtr only, and suggests a revision of the traditional relative chronology of the Norse place-name elements in the West of Scotland.

Discusses the qualities and entitlements of the saer; draws particularly on a legal text dealing with the refection and fees due to craftsmen (= CIH vi 2107.36-2108.23; with English translation).

sagart, Aifrinn as place-name elements.

1. léas; 2. léasann; 3. Saibhir; 4. Gléachás / gléacas / gléachas; 5. ‘lashings’; 6. 'spoiled priest’.

Against the emendation of fochaid for MS foich < *fo-saich ‘evil’.

Discusses the historical morphology of OIr. saigid.

Rejects the view that OIr. siächt and Gaul. siöxt are cognates.

Discusses the historical morphology of OIr. saigid.

Pt.I: Discusses Welsh and Irish idioms for legally bound protection; Pt. II: Etymological discussion (particularly on Ir. aithlech, saigid, snáidid, naidm).

Edition of Bríatharogaim, including glossing and commentary, from MSS RIA 23 P 12, NLI G 53, TCD H 3. 18, and YBL; with translation and notes. Discussion of each of the names: Beithe, Luis, Fern, Sail, Nin, (h)Úath, Dair, Tinne, Coll, Cert, Muin, Gort, Gétal, Straiph, Ruis, Ailm, Onn, Ú(i)r, Edad (?), Idad (?), Ébad (?), Ó(i)r, Uil(l)en(n), Pín (Iphín), Iphín (Pín), Emancholl.

Identifies the 28 trees and shrubs listed in the eighth-century legal tract Bretha comaithchesa, which are divided into four groups of seven: 1. airig fedo ‘nobles of the wood’: daur ‘oak’, coll ‘hazel’, cuilenn ‘holly’, ibar ‘yew’, uinnius ‘ash’, ochtach ‘Scots pine?', aball ‘wild apple-tree’; 2. aithig fedo ‘commoners of the wood’: fern ‘alder’, sail ‘willow’, scé ‘whitehorn, hawthorn’, cáerthann ‘rowan, mountain ash’, beithe ‘birch’, lem ‘elm’, idath ‘wild cherry?'; 3. fodla fedo ‘lower divisions of the wood’: draigen ‘blackthorn’, trom ‘elder, bore-tree’, féorus ‘spindle-tree’, findcholl ‘whitebeam?', caithne ‘arbutus, strawberry tree’, crithach ‘aspen’, crann fir ‘juniper?'; 4. losa fedo ‘bushes of the wood’: raith ‘bracken’, rait ‘bog-myrtle’, aiten ‘gorse, furze’, dris ‘bramble, blackberry’, fróech ‘heather’, gilcach ‘broom?', spín ‘wild rose?'. Also includes brief discussion of lecla and aín, variant names for ‘rushes’, and native trees and shrubs not included in the four classes.

Discusses OIr. gann, mucc, marc, treb; ubull, coll, sail.

On the sailm escaine, or ritual use of a cursus of 20 salms as a means of cursing enemies.

1. palmaire/falmaire/falmaireacht; 2. fámaire/fámaireacht; 3. palmaire/falmaire; 4. falmadóir/halmadóir; 5. failm/ailm; 6. pailméar; 7. pám; 8. tailm/sailm/failm.

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.

1. góirséad; 2. mábla; 3. miúndáil; 4. sáirse; 5. slincín; 6. trombhód.

Suggests a semantic shift from PIE abstract *sh₂tyo- ‘satiety’ to concrete PC *satio- ‘swarm of bees’.

Repr. in Watkins selected writings II, pp. 622-625.

1. sál; 2. sed; 3. slabar; 4. slice; 5. ta-; 6. tadg, tál; 7. tarr, torrach; 8. tinaid; 9. tindabrad, Findabair; 10. úall, úabar, úais; 11. *u̯ernā?, fern.

OIr. sor, sar, sarachán; berbad, bruth; lágha, láighe.

Repr. in Ausgewählte Beiträge zur typologischen Sprachgeographie, pp. 165-167.

Ed. of scribal colophon on Pelagius’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles from MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9530 and Salisbury, Cathedral Library, 5; with Engl transl. Suggests that the text was copied in Wales. Discusses the names Helisęus, Merianus and Salamonis.

1. Salt [OIr. salann, murluaithe]; 2. Metal sources, metalworkers, metalworking sites and metallulrgical processes; 3. Gold in early Irish language and archaeology [OIr. ór].

ad N. J. A. Williams, I bprionta i leabhar: na Protastúin agus prós na Gaeilge, 1567-1724 (Dublin 1986).

ad N. J. A. Williams, I bprionta i leabhar: na Protastúin agus prós na Gaeilge, 1567-1724 (Dublin 1986).

(i) Discusses Irish lexical material culled from Agallamh na seanórach: A. Words unrecorded in DIL [airchóítid, aithrigid, Arabthach, brandaige, ceólánach, daltacán, dúblugad, dubugad, fáenad, fidchleóracht, fogablánach, forlorg, listugad, máithrigid, mallachtad, mebraigthech, rengach, ruchtad, scandradach, tinnesnadach, tóbacht, toimígiud]; B. Support for former hapax legomena [círgallach, clocásach, comonórugad, dásachtach, delgach, galraigthech, gríanánach, grithnugud, mescda, onfaisech, ríganta, trechlam, úaignige]; C. Evidence for antedating [círgallach, coinsiasach, coimesóenta, dothaim, faillige, fáiltigud, maslaigid, meraigthe, salmchetlach, taidleóír]; D. Insights into sense and usage [branán, dumugud:, conách, sceimelbord, tollchenn].

(ii) Bird names not recorded in DIL [discusses ornithological vocabulary extracted from a poem included in the Reeves Agallamh beg. Téighim toiscc d’fhulucchadh Finn]: adaircín, adarcán, adarclóc, boinndergán,brúacharán, buideóc, cricharán, crichrán, crottach, glaiseóc, petta odor, ríabóc, ruilech, scréchóc, troisc.]

1. atharrach; 2. feidheal; 3. gail; 4. saltair; 5. scaradh; 6. suim.

Proposes Ir. Éininis.

Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms blíadain, ónn uraid (MIr. innuraid), gaim, gem, gam, gaimred, errach, sam, samrad, fog(a)mar, feis, gamuin, fannall, samaisc, eórna.

On the unexpected eclipsis seen in this form.

Republ. in Selected papers on Indo-European linguistics, pp. 294-301.

Discusses literary and folklore references to the banb samna.

On Indo-European analogues of the metaphorical use of samaisc in the sense of ‘girl’ seen in Longes mac n-Uislenn §9 (as ed. by V. Hull, 1949).

Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms blíadain, ónn uraid (MIr. innuraid), gaim, gem, gam, gaimred, errach, sam, samrad, fog(a)mar, feis, gamuin, fannall, samaisc, eórna.

Some discussion of the terms samchásc ‘summer Easter’, corgus ‘Lent’, samchorgus ‘summer Lent’, gamchorgus ‘winter Lent’ and minchásc ‘Low Sunday’. Concludes that the St Gall Priscian MS was begun in October 850 and completed in August 851.

Some discussion of the terms samchásc ‘summer Easter’, corgus ‘Lent’, samchorgus ‘summer Lent’, gamchorgus ‘winter Lent’ and minchásc ‘Low Sunday’. Concludes that the St Gall Priscian MS was begun in October 850 and completed in August 851.

On some of the incorrect and misleading meanings in Irish and Scottish dictionaries derived from glosses in Míchéal Ó Cléirigh’s dictionary, Focloir no Sanasan Nua (1643). 1. acht ‘danger’; 2. ailcith ‘a strand stone’; 3. aincheas ‘danger’; 4. aineach ‘horsemanship’; 5. airmid ‘a swan’; 6. aitheallach ‘a second proof’; 7. aithréos ‘manure’; 8. ala(dh) ‘a trout’; 9. argad ‘a hindrance’; 10. bacat ‘a captive’; 11. béim ‘a nation’; 12. coibhchiogh ‘ravenous, fierce’; 13. coichmhe ‘an udder’; 14. díchealtair ‘a park’; 15. fé fiadha ‘a park’; 16. fec ‘a weakness’; 17. feothán ‘a dormouse’; 18. glinn, grinn ‘a fort’, ‘a garrison’; 19. meirceann ‘a finger’; 20. rae ‘a salmon’; 21. rear ‘provision’; 22. samhlat ‘active’; 23. sithbhe ‘a city’; 24. soma ‘a flock of swans’; 25. talchara ‘a generous lover’; 26. tealgadh ‘eating, consuming’; 27. urghais ‘suppression of antiquities’.

Considers the frequency of the element Lugu- in toponomy; the coincidence in date of the festival of Lugnusad and the annual festival in hounour of the Emperor Augustus at Lugudunum (Lyons); and the similarity of the Lug’s epithet samildánach to Caesar’s characterisation of Mercury as omnium inventor artium.

Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms blíadain, ónn uraid (MIr. innuraid), gaim, gem, gam, gaimred, errach, sam, samrad, fog(a)mar, feis, gamuin, fannall, samaisc, eórna.

Discusses an Irish episode in Vita Sancti Samsonis.

Attempts to identify various epidemic diseases recorded in the Irish annals, ad 540–795: blefed, buide chonnaill (or crón chonnaill), samthrosc, bolgach, baccach, riuth fola, scamach.

Traces the development of the Old Irish article from its origin in the Indo-European demonstrative stem *so/to- to its partial substitution by the root *sem- ‘one’.

Discusses the negative prepositional relatives, especially with regard to the presence of the relative particle in these constructions.

Incl. survey of extant native glossaries and their MS versions.

Focuses on Sanas Cormaic, Dúil Dromma Cetta and O’Mulconry’s glossary.

saor, daor, and derivates.

On the training of bardic poets; stresses the role of ‘books’. Incl. discussion of associated terminology, e.g. saothrughadh ‘training’, cúrsa saothruighthe ‘a course of study’, duan dheiridh shaothair ‘composition to secure graduation’, sgagadh ‘straining, sifting’, glanadh ‘cleansing’, gleódh ‘purifying’, breithniughadh ‘judging, examining’, oide ‘teacher’.

OIr. sor, sar, sarachán; berbad, bruth; lágha, láighe.

Repr. in Ausgewählte Beiträge zur typologischen Sprachgeographie, pp. 165-167.

1. saucer (sàsar, flat); 2. hair (of the head) (gruag, falt); 3. oystercatcher (trìlleachan, brìdean); 4. smoke (from the chimney) (toit, ceò); 5. porridge (brochan, lite); 6. blue (of the sky) (liath, gorm); 7. grey (of hair) (glas, liath); 8. Sunday (Di-Dòmhnaich, Latha na Sàbaid) – all with corresponding maps.

Suggests the possibility of a Ciarraige origin for Moṡaulum, Ailill (Áulomm)'s alias in Scéla Moṡauluim.

Discusses the terms Ériu, Féni, Scotti, Goídil, Cruthin, Picti, Albu, Bretain, Angli, Saxain, Frainc, Geinti, Gaill, Gall-Ghaedhil, Nordmainn, Lochlainn, Danair.

ad D. A. Binchy 1941 (BILL 1479).

Incl. discussion of partán ‘crab’, Partraige (ethnonym), (partaing > Lat. parthicus), pattu ‘hare’, petta ‘hare’, pell ‘horse’, pít ‘portion of food’, pluc `(round) mass’, prapp ‘rapid’, gliomach ‘lobster’, faochán ‘periwinkle’, ciotóg ‘left hand’, bradán ‘salmon’, scadán ‘herring’. Cf. G. R. Isaac, in Ériu 53 (2003), pp. 151-155.

partán, Partraige; ad G. Isaac, in Ériu 53 (2003), pp. 151-153; cf. P. Schrijver, in Ériu 51 (2000), pp. 195-199.

Further non-Indo-European etyma discussed include: pell/fell, petta, pít/fít, pluc/prapp, patu/pata, scatán, ciotóg.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

< Ir. scainnear.

Earliest two references from Hisperica famina.

Examines the usage of names of illnesses and diseases occurring in the text of Bethada náem nÉrenn: 1. amlabar, bacach, bodhar, clamhdall, lobhar; 2. aillse, fiolun fionn, easbadha, cuthach; scamach, lirach, moirtin marbh, bás obann, ifreann; esláinte theinntidhe, galar cos, demhan.

Attempts to identify various epidemic diseases recorded in the Irish annals, ad 540–795: blefed, buide chonnaill (or crón chonnaill), samthrosc, bolgach, baccach, riuth fola, scamach.

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

(i) Discusses Irish lexical material culled from Agallamh na seanórach: A. Words unrecorded in DIL [airchóítid, aithrigid, Arabthach, brandaige, ceólánach, daltacán, dúblugad, dubugad, fáenad, fidchleóracht, fogablánach, forlorg, listugad, máithrigid, mallachtad, mebraigthech, rengach, ruchtad, scandradach, tinnesnadach, tóbacht, toimígiud]; B. Support for former hapax legomena [círgallach, clocásach, comonórugad, dásachtach, delgach, galraigthech, gríanánach, grithnugud, mescda, onfaisech, ríganta, trechlam, úaignige]; C. Evidence for antedating [círgallach, coinsiasach, coimesóenta, dothaim, faillige, fáiltigud, maslaigid, meraigthe, salmchetlach, taidleóír]; D. Insights into sense and usage [branán, dumugud:, conách, sceimelbord, tollchenn].

(ii) Bird names not recorded in DIL [discusses ornithological vocabulary extracted from a poem included in the Reeves Agallamh beg. Téighim toiscc d’fhulucchadh Finn]: adaircín, adarcán, adarclóc, boinndergán,brúacharán, buideóc, cricharán, crichrán, crottach, glaiseóc, petta odor, ríabóc, ruilech, scréchóc, troisc.]

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

foirisiún (from Engl. portion); 2. scansáil (from Engl. sconce). Exx. from Cois Fharraige.

Squince Harbour, Co. Cork; Ir. Scaoinse.

The practice of divination from sheep’s shoulder blades (ScG slinneannachd) is traced from seventeenth century Gaelic folk-culture back to medieval Arabic treatises composed in Spain. Incl. plts.

1. atharrach; 2. feidheal; 3. gail; 4. saltair; 5. scaradh; 6. suim.

Interprets this place name within the context of Patrician literature (particularly Trip² 849-852).

Interprets this place name within the context of Patrician literature (particularly Trip² 849-852).

vs. P. Schrijver, in Ériu 51 (2000), pp. 195-196; especially on the evidence for speakers of a non-Indo-European language in 6th c. Ireland. 1. pell ‘horse’ [pell < L pellis ‘hide, skin’; meaning of ‘horse’ may represent an instance of pars pro toto]; 2. petta ‘pet’ [a loan from Brit. *petti-]; 3. pít ‘ration of food’ [< fít ‘ration, allowance of food’ < L uita ‘life’, perhaps influenced by L pitantia ‘ration, allowance of food’]; 4. pluc ‘large, round mass’ [pluc 'distended cheek’ > ‘large round mass’ (vs. DIL P-192.1) is onomatopoeic in origin]; 5. Further discussion and some conclusions; also discusses prapp ‘quick, rapid, sudden’ [onomatopoeic], pattu ‘hare’ [cognate with W pathew ‘dormouse’], scatán [related to Germanic words], ciotóg [OIr. *ciutt related to W chwith ‘left’, chwithig ‘awkward’], partán [defends connection with partaing ‘crimson (Parthian) red’; was not borrowed from Partraige ‘Crab People’; suggests a derivation involving part- ‘side’, with original meaning of ‘sideling’ in reference to the crab’s practice of walking sideways].

partán, Partraige; ad G. Isaac, in Ériu 53 (2003), pp. 151-153; cf. P. Schrijver, in Ériu 51 (2000), pp. 195-199.

Further non-Indo-European etyma discussed include: pell/fell, petta, pít/fít, pluc/prapp, patu/pata, scatán, ciotóg.

OIr. scáterc from scáth ‘shadow’ + derc ‘eye’.

barr, caoi, faitíos, feadh, grá, leisce, nós, scáth.

OIr. scáterc from scáth ‘shadow’ + derc ‘eye’.

Identifies the 28 trees and shrubs listed in the eighth-century legal tract Bretha comaithchesa, which are divided into four groups of seven: 1. airig fedo ‘nobles of the wood’: daur ‘oak’, coll ‘hazel’, cuilenn ‘holly’, ibar ‘yew’, uinnius ‘ash’, ochtach ‘Scots pine?', aball ‘wild apple-tree’; 2. aithig fedo ‘commoners of the wood’: fern ‘alder’, sail ‘willow’, scé ‘whitehorn, hawthorn’, cáerthann ‘rowan, mountain ash’, beithe ‘birch’, lem ‘elm’, idath ‘wild cherry?'; 3. fodla fedo ‘lower divisions of the wood’: draigen ‘blackthorn’, trom ‘elder, bore-tree’, féorus ‘spindle-tree’, findcholl ‘whitebeam?', caithne ‘arbutus, strawberry tree’, crithach ‘aspen’, crann fir ‘juniper?'; 4. losa fedo ‘bushes of the wood’: raith ‘bracken’, rait ‘bog-myrtle’, aiten ‘gorse, furze’, dris ‘bramble, blackberry’, fróech ‘heather’, gilcach ‘broom?', spín ‘wild rose?'. Also includes brief discussion of lecla and aín, variant names for ‘rushes’, and native trees and shrubs not included in the four classes.

vs M. Oftedal’s explanation (in Viking congress 7, pp. 125-133) as a Norse borrowing.

vs M. Oftedal’s explanation (in Viking congress 7, pp. 125-133) as a Norse borrowing.

vs M. Oftedal’s explanation (in Viking congress 7, pp. 125-133) as a Norse borrowing.

(i) Discusses Irish lexical material culled from Agallamh na seanórach: A. Words unrecorded in DIL [airchóítid, aithrigid, Arabthach, brandaige, ceólánach, daltacán, dúblugad, dubugad, fáenad, fidchleóracht, fogablánach, forlorg, listugad, máithrigid, mallachtad, mebraigthech, rengach, ruchtad, scandradach, tinnesnadach, tóbacht, toimígiud]; B. Support for former hapax legomena [círgallach, clocásach, comonórugad, dásachtach, delgach, galraigthech, gríanánach, grithnugud, mescda, onfaisech, ríganta, trechlam, úaignige]; C. Evidence for antedating [círgallach, coinsiasach, coimesóenta, dothaim, faillige, fáiltigud, maslaigid, meraigthe, salmchetlach, taidleóír]; D. Insights into sense and usage [branán, dumugud:, conách, sceimelbord, tollchenn].

(ii) Bird names not recorded in DIL [discusses ornithological vocabulary extracted from a poem included in the Reeves Agallamh beg. Téighim toiscc d’fhulucchadh Finn]: adaircín, adarcán, adarclóc, boinndergán,brúacharán, buideóc, cricharán, crichrán, crottach, glaiseóc, petta odor, ríabóc, ruilech, scréchóc, troisc.]

On the association of OIr. stoir, argamaint, scél, with L historia, argumentum, fabula in the Old Irish glosses.

Attempts to define the role of the preco in Hiberno-Latin hagiographical texts and their extant Middle Irish counterparts, suggesting it embodies a range of concepts including ‘bearer of news’, ‘oral performer’, ‘prophet’, and ‘survivor’.

On OIr. tiag (< Lat. theca) and Hib.-Lat. scetha (< Late Lat. scheda).

On OIr. tiag (< Lat. theca) and Hib.-Lat. scetha (< Late Lat. scheda).

1. bestindrim; 2. dolbud; 3. ecosc; 4. figair, fiugar; 5. fuath; 6. iroin; 7. metaforde, metaforecde; 8. sciam; 9. trop; 10. tropdae; 11. tropdaid.

On a possible etymological tradition in Agallamh na senórach connecting the personal name Dolbh Scóinne, the place name Dún Scóine and the word sciän with Scone in Perthshire.

Dissociates Ir. citt- (EModIr. cittach) from W chwith and establishes that MIr. scibid is the genuine cognate.

1. ainsiléad; 2. bindealán; 3. buimbéal; 4. bumbal, buimiléad; 5. fáiméad, páiméad; 6. fúinniméad, fúinniméadach; 7. líméar; 8. lindéar; 9. lipéad; 10. scipéad; 11. spiara; 12. spícéad; 13. straiféad; 14. stráisiún; 15. stroimpiléad; 16. strúiméad, stráiméad; 17. struipléad.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

Arranged in five groups: 1. Múinteoireacht; 2. Ceardaíocht; 3. Obair thalmhaíochta; 4. Sclábhaíocht choiteann; 5. Gnó. With Innéacs Téarmaí.

On a possible etymological tradition in Agallamh na senórach connecting the personal name Dolbh Scóinne, the place name Dún Scóine and the word sciän with Scone in Perthshire.

On a possible etymological tradition in Agallamh na senórach connecting the personal name Dolbh Scóinne, the place name Dún Scóine and the word sciän with Scone in Perthshire.

On a possible etymological tradition in Agallamh na senórach connecting the personal name Dolbh Scóinne, the place name Dún Scóine and the word sciän with Scone in Perthshire.

Part 1: Scot as a by-name; Part 2: Scot as a surname, north of the Firth of Forth.

Examines in particular evidence from Félire Óengusso and its 12th c. commentary.

A medieval etymology of Scotti from the Lebor Gabála.

Part 1: Scot as a by-name; Part 2: Scot as a surname, north of the Firth of Forth.

On the identification of Kilvoro; ad D. Ó Muirithe, in Éigse 24 (1993), pp. 68-70.

On the practice of using rolls of sod for roofing (known as ‘scraw’ < Ir. scraith).

1. as éadan; 2. bosca/boiscín; 3. carca, cargadh; 4.criss cross; 5. dristiúirí; 6. fiúigil, -ín; 7. scread maidne.

1. as éadan; 2. bosca/boiscín; 3. carca, cargadh; 4.criss cross; 5. dristiúirí; 6. fiúigil, -ín; 7. scread maidne.

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

On the identification of Kilvoro; ad D. Ó Muirithe, in Éigse 24 (1993), pp. 68-70.

(i) Discusses Irish lexical material culled from Agallamh na seanórach: A. Words unrecorded in DIL [airchóítid, aithrigid, Arabthach, brandaige, ceólánach, daltacán, dúblugad, dubugad, fáenad, fidchleóracht, fogablánach, forlorg, listugad, máithrigid, mallachtad, mebraigthech, rengach, ruchtad, scandradach, tinnesnadach, tóbacht, toimígiud]; B. Support for former hapax legomena [círgallach, clocásach, comonórugad, dásachtach, delgach, galraigthech, gríanánach, grithnugud, mescda, onfaisech, ríganta, trechlam, úaignige]; C. Evidence for antedating [círgallach, coinsiasach, coimesóenta, dothaim, faillige, fáiltigud, maslaigid, meraigthe, salmchetlach, taidleóír]; D. Insights into sense and usage [branán, dumugud:, conách, sceimelbord, tollchenn].

(ii) Bird names not recorded in DIL [discusses ornithological vocabulary extracted from a poem included in the Reeves Agallamh beg. Téighim toiscc d’fhulucchadh Finn]: adaircín, adarcán, adarclóc, boinndergán,brúacharán, buideóc, cricharán, crichrán, crottach, glaiseóc, petta odor, ríabóc, ruilech, scréchóc, troisc.]

Reconstructs the honour-prices corresponding to the previously discussed grades and examines the units of currency used in payments.

Continued from ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 46-65.

Lists and discusses the titles of officials of the church of Armagh found in early Irish chronicles: 1. epscop; 2. tánaise epscoip; 3. ap; 4. tánaise abbad: 5. secnap; 6. comarba; 7. airchinnech; 8. fosairchinnech; 9. maer (or ardmaer); 10. maer bachla Ísa; 11. ferthigis; 12. scríbneoir; 13. anchara; 14. fer léiginn; 15. toísech macc léiginn; 16. sacart; 17. anmchara; 18. senchaid; 19. ecnaid; 20. suí; 21. ardollam; 22. cenn bocht; 23. príomhchalladóir; 24. príomhchríochaire; 25. leabhar coimhéadaigh.

Can mean (i) ‘move with pity’; (ii) ‘torment(ed) with hunger, cold, etc.'.

Discusses the terms Ériu, Féni, Scotti, Goídil, Cruthin, Picti, Albu, Bretain, Angli, Saxain, Frainc, Geinti, Gaill, Gall-Ghaedhil, Nordmainn, Lochlainn, Danair.

Discusses the use of 24 interjections, presented in alphabetical order.

Concludes that there are no grounds for postulating a category of words with final short stressed vowel in Old Irish. 1. dí ‘from her’; 2. dé ‘from him, it’; 3. (cechtar) dé ‘each of the two’; 4. imallé ‘together’; 5. illé ‘hither’; 6. té ‘hot’; 7. só ‘this’; 8. sé ‘this’; 9. amné ‘thus’; 10. danó ‘then’.

[1.] Focail árithe i gcomhardadh (sé:é, sí:í, etc.); [2.] Droichead uama. Part [I] in Éigse 14/3 (1972), pp. 207-214; part III in Éigse 15/2 (1973), pp. 89-92.

§7.2 Celtique [Vieil irlandais sé].

Criticises the doctrine that links Old Irish preverbs no-, to/do- with the Hittite ‘sentence connectives’ and proposes alternative etymologies based on their Basque and Amazigh typological parallels, among others.

Repr. in Ausgewählte Beiträge zur typologischen Sprachgeographie, pp. 134-155.

On the adverbial/impersonal use of the 3sg. m./n. of conjugated prepositions referred to in Bardical syntactical tracts.

[1.] On the use of indefinite nouns with time reference as adverbs meaning ‘over a period of …', e.g. seachtain, mí, bliain, lá, coicís in negative contexts in the Irish of An Cheathrú Rua; [2.] i leith an bóthar: on the adverbial use of the nominative of definite nouns following certain compound and nominal prepositions preceded by verbs of motion, e.g. ar aghaidh, i ngiorracht, i leith, timpeall, treasna; [3.] Tá sé ag dul Gaillimh: on the ‘elision’ of the preposition go before place-names.

Argues that shader-names derive from ON sǽtr only, and suggests a revision of the traditional relative chronology of the Norse place-name elements in the West of Scotland.

Argues Lat. theonym Sēmō is connected to a Proto-Celtic *Segomū (> Gaul. Segomoni, Og. segamanas, OIr. (Nia) Segamon), positing a Proto-Italo-Celtic *seĝ^homōn- ‘strong one,' ‘strongman’ (< PIE *√seĝ^h- ‘hold firmly,' etc.).

Bird-names: buna-bhuachaill, carara, goillir, seagair, trilleachan.

Repr. from BUPNS 2/2 (Summer, 1954), pp. 30-31.

Online publication available at: https://comhartaighde.ie/eagrain/5/williams/ [Accessed 4 January 2020].

1. ‘Goosegrass’ (Galium aparine) [Ir. garbhlus, airmeirig, uirlis chríonna, sop séaláin, etc.]; 2. ‘Hemlock water-dropwort’ (Oenanthe crocata) [Ir. athabha, dathabha].

Discusses evidence for the hunting practice in medieval Ireland, collected from Classical Irish sources and presented in comparison with evidence from Fiannaigecht material. Incl. discussion of terminology associated with the hunting process.

Discusses features found in MS NLS, Advocates’ 72.1.1: 1. Preterite passive form; 2. Present passive form; 3. dh’ before vowel sounds; 4. Imperfect/conditional second person singular; 5. Demonstrative relative; 6. Nasalization; 7. Is ann; 8. Plurals in -ann; 9. Caducous vowels; 10. Vowel-lengthening before long liquids; 11. Voicing of -p- in mp-group; 12. Aitte; 13. An aire; 14. Easbaig; 15. Eiphit; 16. Fèill; 17. Glais; 18. Seann-; 19. Teirig; 20. Toir; 21. Thusa.

A comparative analysis of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh’s redaction of the poem (found in MSS RIA 24 P 27, RIA A v 1, NLI G 167) with that of ‘its original form as drafted by Dubhthach Óg Ó Duibhgeannáin’ (in MS ULC Add. 3084) in honour of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill. Redactor identified as Cú Choigcríche mac Diarmada Ó Cléirigh, one of the Four Masters.

Suggests it may be a substratum word, cf. Basque txingurri.

Discusses features found in MS NLS, Advocates’ 72.1.1: 1. Preterite passive form; 2. Present passive form; 3. dh’ before vowel sounds; 4. Imperfect/conditional second person singular; 5. Demonstrative relative; 6. Nasalization; 7. Is ann; 8. Plurals in -ann; 9. Caducous vowels; 10. Vowel-lengthening before long liquids; 11. Voicing of -p- in mp-group; 12. Aitte; 13. An aire; 14. Easbaig; 15. Eiphit; 16. Fèill; 17. Glais; 18. Seann-; 19. Teirig; 20. Toir; 21. Thusa.

Discusses evidence for the hunting practice in medieval Ireland, collected from Classical Irish sources and presented in comparison with evidence from Fiannaigecht material. Incl. discussion of terminology associated with the hunting process.

1. Lenition after iongantach [and millteanach]; 2. i bhfus: On the development from adverb to quaisi-imperative: 'here’ > 'give me’; 3. Tá mé ina shuidhe: On the generalisation of 3rd masc. poss. in ina shuidhe, ina sheasamh, etc. in Ulster and Man.

1. stán; 2. *clódhghalar.

On OIr. sebortir (fut. of seircid).

Criticises the doctrine that links Old Irish preverbs no-, to/do- with the Hittite ‘sentence connectives’ and proposes alternative etymologies based on their Basque and Amazigh typological parallels, among others.

Repr. in Ausgewählte Beiträge zur typologischen Sprachgeographie, pp. 134-155.

1. for·tét ‘helps’; 2. im(b)·tét ‘goes about, sets forth’; 3. frith·to-tég, fristait ·frittáit ‘opposes’; 4. in·od-tég- 3 pl. intotgat ‘enter’; 5. The inherited inventory; 6. imb·said- v. n. impuide ‘besiege’; 7. sechmo·ella ‘passes by, lacks’.

On the functions of M. Dillon’s ‘empty’ to- in tescaid.

(a) *fo·aisci, do·fāisce: ad J. Carney’s discussion of fásc ‘announcement’ and tásc ‘tidings received’, in Ériu 18 (1958), p. 34 (cf. BILL 5527); (b) tinchosc, tecosc: more on derivatives of sechid, including écosc; (c) sich ‘said’: ad J. Carney, ibid., p. 14 §13c, read sích.

1. for·tét ‘helps’; 2. im(b)·tét ‘goes about, sets forth’; 3. frith·to-tég, fristait ·frittáit ‘opposes’; 4. in·od-tég- 3 pl. intotgat ‘enter’; 5. The inherited inventory; 6. imb·said- v. n. impuide ‘besiege’; 7. sechmo·ella ‘passes by, lacks’.

On the readings sechtordd and timchellad in the description of Ailill and Medb’s house, §7 (ll. 65ff as ed. by W. Meid 1970 [BILL 4991]).

Lists and discusses the titles of officials of the church of Armagh found in early Irish chronicles: 1. epscop; 2. tánaise epscoip; 3. ap; 4. tánaise abbad: 5. secnap; 6. comarba; 7. airchinnech; 8. fosairchinnech; 9. maer (or ardmaer); 10. maer bachla Ísa; 11. ferthigis; 12. scríbneoir; 13. anchara; 14. fer léiginn; 15. toísech macc léiginn; 16. sacart; 17. anmchara; 18. senchaid; 19. ecnaid; 20. suí; 21. ardollam; 22. cenn bocht; 23. príomhchalladóir; 24. príomhchríochaire; 25. leabhar coimhéadaigh.

1. sál; 2. sed; 3. slabar; 4. slice; 5. ta-; 6. tadg, tál; 7. tarr, torrach; 8. tinaid; 9. tindabrad, Findabair; 10. úall, úabar, úais; 11. *u̯ernā?, fern.

Argues Lat. theonym Sēmō is connected to a Proto-Celtic *Segomū (> Gaul. Segomoni, Og. segamanas, OIr. (Nia) Segamon), positing a Proto-Italo-Celtic *seĝ^homōn- ‘strong one,' ‘strongman’ (< PIE *√seĝ^h- ‘hold firmly,' etc.).

On the etym. of MIr. ség, séd.

áugaire, úgaire, óegaire, Bóguine, ráthbuige, sedguine, corrguine, cuthchaire, cáinte.

Investigates hilltop cairns and mounds named Suidhe Finn which were used as boundary landmarks. Includes a case study of the landscape of the hill of Almhain and its summit mound of Suidhe Finn in North Leinster.

On the etym. of MIr. ség, séd.

Argues Lat. theonym Sēmō is connected to a Proto-Celtic *Segomū (> Gaul. Segomoni, Og. segamanas, OIr. (Nia) Segamon), positing a Proto-Italo-Celtic *seĝ^homōn- ‘strong one,' ‘strongman’ (< PIE *√seĝ^h- ‘hold firmly,' etc.).

Ed. with diplomatic and restored texts (incl. glosses on text) on the three cauldrons of poesy, Coire Goiriath, Coire Érmai, Coire Soḟis from MS TCD H 3. 18 with Engl. transl. and notes. Begins with Moí coire coir Goiriath. Discussion of linguistic dating and metrics. Includes index of names and principal notes. Appendix with ed. of text on the hazels of Segais (cuill na Segsa) from MS NLI G 10.

Add. et corr. in Ériu 35 (1984), pp. 189-191.

Hapax legomena bzw. nicht gesicherte Formen (cainim, clithem, etham, foídem, laissem, meisem/mesam, roem, sílem, sruithem, toirnem); Tierbezeichnungen (*betham, braichem, glaídem, legam, léom, sirem, toinnem, trichem/trechem); Bezeichnungen für Werkzeuge bzw. Gebrauchgegenstände (airnem, airtem, ceram, drolam, es(s)em, fíam, galam, genam/genum, ¹rúam, ²rúam, súainem); Personennamen (Aithem, *Segam, *Regam, Maram, Solam); Ähnliche Bildungen (mithem, ollam); Zusammenfassung.

Argues Lat. theonym Sēmō is connected to a Proto-Celtic *Segomū (> Gaul. Segomoni, Og. segamanas, OIr. (Nia) Segamon), positing a Proto-Italo-Celtic *seĝ^homōn- ‘strong one,' ‘strongman’ (< PIE *√seĝ^h- ‘hold firmly,' etc.).

Argues Lat. theonym Sēmō is connected to a Proto-Celtic *Segomū (> Gaul. Segomoni, Og. segamanas, OIr. (Nia) Segamon), positing a Proto-Italo-Celtic *seĝ^homōn- ‘strong one,' ‘strongman’ (< PIE *√seĝ^h- ‘hold firmly,' etc.).

1. ientu- ⁓ iantu-; 2. namanto-: its distribution; 3. carant-, carat-; 4. caro-; 5. namant-: its morphology; 6. ad-namat-: its morphology; 7. OIr. serc [śerk]; 8. nantu-, nanti-; 9. Sego- and u̯al-; 10. The stem i(e)ntu-; 11. Conclusion; [12.] Appendix [on some Latin parallels].

ad D. A. Binchy, in Celtica 5 (1960), pp. 80-81. 3 sg. rel. sı̄che attested in an Old Irish gloss in Cáin Ḟuithirbe.

On OIr. seichithir.

Discusses a number of Irish words for ‘scale’, ‘film’, ‘skin’, etc., incl. lann, bloesc (blaosc, plaosc), scánnán, seicne, scam(h)a, scam(h)ach, scamhadh, scamh, screamh, scamall, scamhal, fachail; also ad. D. Greene, in Celtica 4 (1958), p. 45 (BILL 1613).

(1.) Tablaí/paraidím agus réim; (2.) séimhse/seimeastar.

1. Relecture des gloses du ms. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 279 [§1-5. Adds additional Irish glosses from this MS, diguised in the text as Latin words (1. (s)nasaib; 2. séimed; 3-4. tan; 5. cís); §6-7. Explains two glosses as Hiberno-Latin: arege (cf. Hib.-Lat. arrea), trans caput (cf. OIr. tar cenn); §8. Argues Thes. ii 38 in dibbrit is an Old Breton gloss (leg. in diobrit) and not Irish]; 2. Notes sur les gloses au Liber ex lege Moysi dans le ms. Orléans 221 [§2. Traces de gloses irlandaises dans le LLM d’Orléans 221].

(1.) Tablaí/paraidím agus réim; (2.) séimhse/seimeastar.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

1. cómhrac i dtóin [and gáir faoi tholl]; 2. fochraí (an) lae [< fochroíb; cf. also forcraid, fortraid; for variation in similar clusters, cf. M. A. O’Brien, in Celtica 2/2 (1954), p. 353]; 3. feiste [‘entertainment’; feist, eisteas, feisteas; 4. crioslach [crioslaí pl.]; 5. seir; 6. paidir chapaill; 7. púirín; 8. is (ní) luar liom [luar < lú orm]; 9. tɑ: tu: tau [togha].

OIr. seirg, seircid.

Republ. in Lindeman studies, pp. 200-204.

On OIr. sebortir (fut. of seircid).

OIr. seirg, seircid.

Republ. in Lindeman studies, pp. 200-204.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

1. Introduction; 2. Sound patterning as poetic device: (a) The line; (b) sèis, Cultural Resonances, and Linguistic Reinforcement; 3. Sound patterning as linguistic sign; 4. Conclusion.

ad Bretha Déin Chécht, §36.

Searches for traces of old case forms (specially instrumental, locative) in the Old Irish nominal inflection.

Discusses the use and meaning of OIr. terms for semantic concepts, such as séis, sians/séns, intliucht, cíall, and inne.

OIr. socht ‘stupor’ originally denoted a pathological state or variety of ‘sickness’; derivation from *sóktos from root *sek- ‘dryness’.

Repr. in Watkins selected writings II, pp. 560-564.

(a) *fo·aisci, do·fāisce: ad J. Carney’s discussion of fásc ‘announcement’ and tásc ‘tidings received’, in Ériu 18 (1958), p. 34 (cf. BILL 5527); (b) tinchosc, tecosc: more on derivatives of sechid, including écosc; (c) sich ‘said’: ad J. Carney, ibid., p. 14 §13c, read sích.

OIr. sel- and derivatives (LEIA S-78).

1. Hitt. ḫap- ‘reichlich vorhanden sein’: OIr. ana- ‘richness, property’; 2. Hitt. šinura- ‘mittellos, arm’: OIr. sēna- ‘nier, désavouer, rejeter’; 3. CLu. manai- `(beschreibt Vorratskörbe)': OIr. meⁱnistir- (f.) ‘coffre contenant les ustensiles du culte’, 4. Hitt. mani- ‘Eiter’: OIr. meⁱn·bligi- (pr.) ‘il foisonne, il fourmille’; 5. Hitt. maniti- ‘Wachstum (?)': OIr. muine ‘Berg’; 6. CLu. nani- ‘reinigen’: MIr. cruth·necht ‘roter Weizen’; 7. Hitt. ninga- ‘Regen’: OIr. nin- ‘cloud, wave’; 8. Hitt. ^KUŠšala- ‘Teil des Zaumzeugs’: OIr. selan- ‘corde, laisse de chien’; 9. Hitt. šant- ‘wertwolles Gegenstand’: OIr. sét- ‘trésor’; 10. Hitt. da- ‘all, ganz, gesamt’: OIr. dá ‘in full’.

ad p. 20.17, as ed. by Kuno Meyer 1902 (Best¹, p. 118).

Identifies and discusses personal names of certain or arguable Irish origin (Abniar, Adamnan, Bressal, Brón, Denma, Dengus, Faelfi, Fergus, Finan, Fladgus, Reachtchriðe, Salfach, Ultan; Cuna, Cunen, Honoc, Maethcor, Mucca, Ona, Onboth).

ad p. 20.17, as ed. by Kuno Meyer 1902 (Best¹, p. 118).

Discusses the native medieval Irish etymological tradition (bélrae n-etarscartha) with examples taken from the Auraicept [ros], Sanas Cormac [cánóin, fiadnaise, prull], Aided Cheltchair meic Uthechair [Semuine], etc.

1. Hitt. ḫap- ‘reichlich vorhanden sein’: OIr. ana- ‘richness, property’; 2. Hitt. šinura- ‘mittellos, arm’: OIr. sēna- ‘nier, désavouer, rejeter’; 3. CLu. manai- `(beschreibt Vorratskörbe)': OIr. meⁱnistir- (f.) ‘coffre contenant les ustensiles du culte’, 4. Hitt. mani- ‘Eiter’: OIr. meⁱn·bligi- (pr.) ‘il foisonne, il fourmille’; 5. Hitt. maniti- ‘Wachstum (?)': OIr. muine ‘Berg’; 6. CLu. nani- ‘reinigen’: MIr. cruth·necht ‘roter Weizen’; 7. Hitt. ninga- ‘Regen’: OIr. nin- ‘cloud, wave’; 8. Hitt. ^KUŠšala- ‘Teil des Zaumzeugs’: OIr. selan- ‘corde, laisse de chien’; 9. Hitt. šant- ‘wertwolles Gegenstand’: OIr. sét- ‘trésor’; 10. Hitt. da- ‘all, ganz, gesamt’: OIr. dá ‘in full’.

Anesus (Nesus), Bríg, Ciar, Conchliath, Damán, Feilic, Feimme, Medrán, Meic Mochoba, Modiúit (Modút), Ródán, Sénán, Sillán, T’eolas.

Outlines the Isidorian etymological methodology and illustrates its application in Irish scholarship with four examples from Irish hagiography.

ad F. Kelly, in Peritia 5 (1986), 74-106. Senchae derives from a compound *seno-k^wois(y?)os, meaning ‘old witness’. Senchas represents senchae + abstract suffix -as.

ad F. Kelly, in Peritia 5 (1986), 74-106. Senchae derives from a compound *seno-k^wois(y?)os, meaning ‘old witness’. Senchas represents senchae + abstract suffix -as.

Lists and discusses the titles of officials of the church of Armagh found in early Irish chronicles: 1. epscop; 2. tánaise epscoip; 3. ap; 4. tánaise abbad: 5. secnap; 6. comarba; 7. airchinnech; 8. fosairchinnech; 9. maer (or ardmaer); 10. maer bachla Ísa; 11. ferthigis; 12. scríbneoir; 13. anchara; 14. fer léiginn; 15. toísech macc léiginn; 16. sacart; 17. anmchara; 18. senchaid; 19. ecnaid; 20. suí; 21. ardollam; 22. cenn bocht; 23. príomhchalladóir; 24. príomhchríochaire; 25. leabhar coimhéadaigh.

ad F. Kelly, in Peritia 5 (1986), 74-106. Senchae derives from a compound *seno-k^wois(y?)os, meaning ‘old witness’. Senchas represents senchae + abstract suffix -as.

Senchell Dumaigi; Sendomnach; Ardsenlis; Druime.

Senchell Dumaigi; Sendomnach; Ardsenlis; Druime.

Sennin, sincreth and nemceissi; also on the word úath.

Explores general concepts about the early Irish institution of brigandage within the context of Togail bruidne Da Derga, with special attention to its association with wolflike activities, and argues that the tale conveys the Christian condemnation of díberg.

ad F. Kelly, in Peritia 5 (1986), 74-106. Senchae derives from a compound *seno-k^wois(y?)os, meaning ‘old witness’. Senchas represents senchae + abstract suffix -as.

Discusses the use and meaning of OIr. terms for semantic concepts, such as séis, sians/séns, intliucht, cíall, and inne.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

ag seo, ag sin.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms áth, belach, bóthar, casán, conar, drochet, éol, rith, sét, séol, slige.

Offers an analysis of all the instances of code-switching in MS München, Clm 14456.

Examines the meaning and etymology of Ir. words in the semantic field for ‘star’: 1. ser; 2. rind; 3. rét; 4. rétglu; 5. *get; 6. airndrethach.

OIr. serb (ā f) ‘theft’ is compared to Hitt. šāru ‘booty’.

ad C. Watkins, in Ériu 27 (1976), pp. 116-122.

ad C. Watkins, in Ériu 27 (1976), pp. 116-122.

1. Old Irish tráigid; 2. The simplex serbaid; 3. do-maisi and a detail of syncope.

1. ientu- ⁓ iantu-; 2. namanto-: its distribution; 3. carant-, carat-; 4. caro-; 5. namant-: its morphology; 6. ad-namat-: its morphology; 7. OIr. serc [śerk]; 8. nantu-, nanti-; 9. Sego- and u̯al-; 10. The stem i(e)ntu-; 11. Conclusion; [12.] Appendix [on some Latin parallels].

Examines the syntax of the word serc in early Irish.

Etym. of OIr. carae, cairde, sercc, grád, etc.

< L ferculum.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

On OIr. sebortir (fut. of seircid).

vs. DIL s.v. Seiria ‘Syria’, Seiricda ‘Syrian’. Ir. Seiria, Seiricda, and Serdae derive from L Sēres (nom. pl.), Sēricus (adj.) ‘Chinese’; also on Seir, son of Adam, whose descendants survived the Flood.

On the reconstruction of the Common Celtic present indicative stems underlying OIr. do-dímen and sernaid.

Discusses the continuation in Insular Celtic of the PIE nasal presents made to roots in final laryngeal (exemplified by OIr. sernaid, ernaid, marnaid, ·cella, ·ella, -t·baill, ·gnin).

ad C. Marstrander, Observations sur les présents indo-européens à nasale infixée en celtique, 1924 (Best² 624).

Generic terms: 1. OIr. ech; 2. W march, OIr. marc; 3. MW cafall, ceffyl, caffon, OIr. capall; 4. W gorwydd; 5. W eddystyr [OIr. adastar]; 6. OIr. gabor; 7. mandu? [MIr. menn]. ‘Stallion’ [OIr. caullach, etc.]. ‘Gelding’ [OIr. meile]. ‘Mare’ [OIr. láir]. ‘Foal’ [OIr. lurchaire; OIr. serrach].

Argues that the Uarbél (‘Cold Gap’) contained in Esgair Oeruel may be identified with Windgates in Co. Wicklow, and that Tir Ga[r]mon is a reference to Loch Garman.

[1.] Introduction; [2.] The dubious evidence for a bánbéim of three séts; [3.] The three-sét single-symptom blow (c. AD 650?); [4.] The demise of the three-sét single-symptom blow (from c. AD 675?); [5.] The rise of the two-and-a-half-sét single-symptom blow (c. AD 697?); [6.] The early commentaries (from c. AD 1000?); [7.] Subsequent commentaries (from c. AD 1100); [8.] Later developments; [9.] Crólige cumaile and the seven-sét bandage-wound; [10.] An edition of DEF [normalised with transl. based on the various texts in CIH]; [11.] The commentaries; [12.] Legal procedure in injury cases; [12.] Dating the commentaries; [13.] The MS traditions; [14.] The complilation of MS A; [15.] The relationship between the MSS; [16.] The common material; [17.] Other sources; [18.] An edition of the commentaries to DEF [normalised with transl.]. Incl. brief index to lexical notes.

Reconstructs the honour-prices corresponding to the previously discussed grades and examines the units of currency used in payments.

Continued from ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 46-65.

Examines the textual tradition of Tochmarc Emire with the aim of substantiating Kuno Meyer’s proposed emendation tét ‘rope’ > tṡét ‘path’ at various places in this text.

1. tét/téit; 2. Thurneysen ag dul amú ar an bhfoirm tét (téit); 3. An fhoirm sét; 4. *tét (téd/téit) cliss; 5. An ginideach aidiachtach cliss; 6. Téacs dioplómaitúil; 7. An tseanfhoirm dhleatach úd tétchless.

Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms áth, belach, bóthar, casán, conar, drochet, éol, rith, sét, séol, slige.

1. Hitt. ḫap- ‘reichlich vorhanden sein’: OIr. ana- ‘richness, property’; 2. Hitt. šinura- ‘mittellos, arm’: OIr. sēna- ‘nier, désavouer, rejeter’; 3. CLu. manai- `(beschreibt Vorratskörbe)': OIr. meⁱnistir- (f.) ‘coffre contenant les ustensiles du culte’, 4. Hitt. mani- ‘Eiter’: OIr. meⁱn·bligi- (pr.) ‘il foisonne, il fourmille’; 5. Hitt. maniti- ‘Wachstum (?)': OIr. muine ‘Berg’; 6. CLu. nani- ‘reinigen’: MIr. cruth·necht ‘roter Weizen’; 7. Hitt. ninga- ‘Regen’: OIr. nin- ‘cloud, wave’; 8. Hitt. ^KUŠšala- ‘Teil des Zaumzeugs’: OIr. selan- ‘corde, laisse de chien’; 9. Hitt. šant- ‘wertwolles Gegenstand’: OIr. sét- ‘trésor’; 10. Hitt. da- ‘all, ganz, gesamt’: OIr. dá ‘in full’.

Examines the institution of fosterage in early Ireland, focusing on the adoption of Cú Chulainn by Conchobar and the other prominent Ulstermen. Discusses in particular the terms: gormac, dalta, nia, mac fóesma, sét gerta (or gairitechta), orba niad and orba dúthrachta. Cf. T. Ó Cathasaigh, in Peritia 5 (1986), pp. 128-160.

Examines the institution of fosterage in early Ireland, focusing on the adoption of Cú Chulainn by Conchobar and the other prominent Ulstermen. Discusses in particular the terms: gormac, dalta, nia, mac fóesma, sét gerta (or gairitechta), orba niad and orba dúthrachta. Cf. T. Ó Cathasaigh, in Peritia 5 (1986), pp. 128-160.

Outlines the common story pattern underlying the respective macgnímrada.

partán, Partraige; ad G. Isaac, in Ériu 53 (2003), pp. 151-153; cf. P. Schrijver, in Ériu 51 (2000), pp. 195-199.

Further non-Indo-European etyma discussed include: pell/fell, petta, pít/fít, pluc/prapp, patu/pata, scatán, ciotóg.

On the training of bardic poets; stresses the role of ‘books’. Incl. discussion of associated terminology, e.g. saothrughadh ‘training’, cúrsa saothruighthe ‘a course of study’, duan dheiridh shaothair ‘composition to secure graduation’, sgagadh ‘straining, sifting’, glanadh ‘cleansing’, gleódh ‘purifying’, breithniughadh ‘judging, examining’, oide ‘teacher’.

The arable lands [ScG achadh, dail, goirtean, gead, io(dh)lann, claigionn, losaid, etc.]; The grazing lands [ScG ailean, bàrd, blàr, cluain, innis, lòn, machair, morbhach, magh, etc.]; Animal enclosures [ScG buaile, crò, cuithe/cuidhe, etc.]; Transhumance names [ScG airigh, rinn/roinn, both(an), sgail, etc.].

Comments on the possible Gaelic origin of the Scots words skalk, scaulin pyock, skail, polk breik, cateran, brybour, gluntoch/gluntow.

Focuses on the terms: dual, dualchas; dleasdanach; dligheach; dìlseachd, dìleas; còir; àite, ionad; oighre/éighre, oighreachd/éighreachd; staoighle; Breatunn; ceart, ceartas; fìreantachd; ceann, ceannas; eucoir, eucoireach, eucorach; annasach.

On a possible etymological tradition in Agallamh na senórach connecting the personal name Dolbh Scóinne, the place name Dún Scóine and the word sciän with Scone in Perthshire.

Comments on the possible Gaelic origin of the Scots words skalk, scaulin pyock, skail, polk breik, cateran, brybour, gluntoch/gluntow.

Discusses the following elements in Perth place names: beinn, bioran, caisteal, càrn, cnap, cnoc, cruach, dun, maol, meall, sgiath, sgorr, sìdhean, sliabh, sròn, stob, stuc, tom, tòrr.

Discusses the following elements in Perth place names: beinn, bioran, caisteal, càrn, cnap, cnoc, cruach, dun, maol, meall, sgiath, sgorr, sìdhean, sliabh, sròn, stob, stuc, tom, tòrr.

George Henderson, The Norse influence on Celtic Scotland (1910), pp. 138-143: 1. bàta; 2. bìrlinn; 3. carbh; 4. càrbhair; 5. cnarra; 6. geòla; 7. sgoth.

[1.] Analogues of the banners in Germanic and other cultures; [2.] Banners in Irish tradition outside the fian; [3.] Banners associated with the fian; [4.] The banner quatrains in later tradition (incl. names of banners, e.g. Dealbh Ghréine, Fulang Doghra, Aoincheannach, Dún Naomhtha, Lámh Dhearg, Sguab Ghábhaidh, Lóch Luinneach); [5.] Form and composition of the BDL poem [see [6.]]; [6.] Edition (Poem beg. Naoinear a chuadhm[ar] fá choill, ed. from NLS MS Adv. 72.1.37 (Dean of Lismore’s Bk); with Engl transl. and notes). Figs.

Argues that shader-names derive from ON sǽtr only, and suggests a revision of the traditional relative chronology of the Norse place-name elements in the West of Scotland.

Includes a discussion of the name Sheela-na-gig.

Rev. by
Eamonn P. Kelly, in Ríocht na Midhe 17 (2006), pp. 327-332.

1. Glenravel. 2. Farnaght. 3. Ballyhaukish. 4. Barnagrotty. 5. Castlewarden. 6. Drumacoo. 7. Heapstown. 8. Iffa and Offa. 9. Inch St Laurence. 10. Killeshin. 11. Tirerrill. 12. Toberdan. 13. Tolka. 14. Woodstock. 15. Woodstock. 16. Finnoo. 17. Evegallahoo. 18. Lismakeery. 19. Ballymakeery. 20. Sheen. 21. Shiven. 22. Shimna.

On the origin of Díomóg/Modhíomóg of Cluain Caoin Ara and on the Co, Wexford place names St. Imoge or Shemoge, St. Awaries and Lady’s Island.

1. Glenravel. 2. Farnaght. 3. Ballyhaukish. 4. Barnagrotty. 5. Castlewarden. 6. Drumacoo. 7. Heapstown. 8. Iffa and Offa. 9. Inch St Laurence. 10. Killeshin. 11. Tirerrill. 12. Toberdan. 13. Tolka. 14. Woodstock. 15. Woodstock. 16. Finnoo. 17. Evegallahoo. 18. Lismakeery. 19. Ballymakeery. 20. Sheen. 21. Shiven. 22. Shimna.

1. Glenravel. 2. Farnaght. 3. Ballyhaukish. 4. Barnagrotty. 5. Castlewarden. 6. Drumacoo. 7. Heapstown. 8. Iffa and Offa. 9. Inch St Laurence. 10. Killeshin. 11. Tirerrill. 12. Toberdan. 13. Tolka. 14. Woodstock. 15. Woodstock. 16. Finnoo. 17. Evegallahoo. 18. Lismakeery. 19. Ballymakeery. 20. Sheen. 21. Shiven. 22. Shimna.

Srúill ‘stream, etc.' < sriobhall < sriobh; sruthlú ‘rinse’ < sruth ‘stream’. ScG sruthladh (vn), sruthlach (adj.) ‘rinsing’ and ‘violent motion of the sea’; ScG srùlach (adj.) ‘flowing, etc.', srù(th)lag, sruthlag ‘rivulet’, s(t)rùladh ‘swell of sea’; sru- < sruth; srù- most likely derive from sriobhall but with possible phonetic and semantic contamination between both sets of forms. Shrule in Ir pl.ns < srúill < sriobha(i)ll or possibly < sruthail < sruthair ‘stream’.

[1.] Focail árithe i gcomhardadh (sé:é, sí:í, etc.); [2.] Droichead uama. Part [I] in Éigse 14/3 (1972), pp. 207-214; part III in Éigse 15/2 (1973), pp. 89-92.

Republ. in Lindeman studies, pp. 112-115.

Suggests that the original function of lullabies in Ireland and Scotland was to protect the sleeping child from being abducted by the sí.

On the non-genetic similarity between Ir. sí and Engl. she, and a parallel situation in Swedish and Finnish.

Postulates metathesized *sne, *swe (< PIE *n̥s-e, *us-e as the ultimate source of OIr. sní, sí.

1. dálach ‘mournful, sad, sorrowful’ in Annals of the Four Masters; 2. slam: siabhra slaim ‘fairy or magic hosts ?' (sic leg. not siabhra Sláini as printed by O’Donovan in his edition of Annals of the Four Masters) ; 3. tiagh: as a tiaghaibh in Annals of Ulster vs. as a ttiaghaibh fearrdha in (unpublished portion of) Annals of the Four Masters.

1. dálach ‘mournful, sad, sorrowful’ in Annals of the Four Masters; 2. slam: siabhra slaim ‘fairy or magic hosts ?' (sic leg. not siabhra Sláini as printed by O’Donovan in his edition of Annals of the Four Masters) ; 3. tiagh: as a tiaghaibh in Annals of Ulster vs. as a ttiaghaibh fearrdha in (unpublished portion of) Annals of the Four Masters.

Rejects the view that OIr. siächt and Gaul. siöxt are cognates.

Identifies entry 1315 sion as Irish and suggests a derivation from CC *spii̯on-.

Argues (vs. E. P. Hamp, in CMCS 18 (Winter, 1989), pp. 113-116) that the entry sion is to be interpreted as Gr. σίον and not the Old Irish for ‘foxglove’.

1. ní, nithinn, a bheag, cineál; 2. dada, tada, rud, neamhní, náit, puinn, se(o)id, pioc, bit, fríd, giob, luid, heat, pingin, ás, bonn, sciúrtóg, screapall; 3. dath, lí, ceo, seó, leus, poidhs, scaile, steama; 4. sian, seinm, guth, dùrd, focal, puth, diog, cneadadh; 5. blas, gráinne, greim, smailc, deoir; 6. cáil, cruthaitheachd, tarbha, faic(e), tap, car, fionna-feanna, folt.

Examines the early Irish lists of cles and discusses the individual feats, primarily those associated with Cú Chulainn in Táin bó Cúailnge (cf. TBC 1 ll. 1714-1719): 1. ubullchless; 2. fáeborchless; 3. fáenchless; 4. cless cletenach; 5.téchtless; 6. corpchless; 7. cless caitt; 8. ích n-erred; 9. cor ndeled; 10. léim dar néib/néim; 11. filliud erred náir; 12. gái bolga; 13. bái brasse; 14. rothchless; 15. ochtarchless; 16. cless for análaib; 17. bruud gine; 18. sian caurad; 19. béim co commus; 20. táithbéim; 21. dréim fri fogaist agus agus dírgud crette fora rind co fonnadm níad náir.

Discusses the use and meaning of OIr. terms for semantic concepts, such as séis, sians/séns, intliucht, cíall, and inne.

On the non-adoption of polite pronominal forms in Irish.

(a) *fo·aisci, do·fāisce: ad J. Carney’s discussion of fásc ‘announcement’ and tásc ‘tidings received’, in Ériu 18 (1958), p. 34 (cf. BILL 5527); (b) tinchosc, tecosc: more on derivatives of sechid, including écosc; (c) sich ‘said’: ad J. Carney, ibid., p. 14 §13c, read sích.

(a) *fo·aisci, do·fāisce: ad J. Carney’s discussion of fásc ‘announcement’ and tásc ‘tidings received’, in Ériu 18 (1958), p. 34 (cf. BILL 5527); (b) tinchosc, tecosc: more on derivatives of sechid, including écosc; (c) sich ‘said’: ad J. Carney, ibid., p. 14 §13c, read sích.

ad D. A. Binchy, in Celtica 5 (1960), pp. 80-81. 3 sg. rel. sı̄che attested in an Old Irish gloss in Cáin Ḟuithirbe.

ad D. A. Binchy, in Celtica 5 (1960), pp. 80-81. 3 sg. rel. sı̄che attested in an Old Irish gloss in Cáin Ḟuithirbe.

Síd/síth ‘Otherworld abode, hill or mound’ and síd/síth ‘peace’ are etymologically related, and are central to the notion and function of kingship.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 19-34.

Disusses the concept of Otherworld in Irish and Welsh tradition, and examines certain terms used to denote the idea of otherworld (in particular Ir. síd, and its learned borrowing into Medieval Welsh as (kaer) sidi).

The several anomalies of the Joie de la cort episode in Chrétien de Troyes’s Érec et Énide are addressed through the dual semantics of Irish síd, the equation of radiance and joy in the Celtic languages, and Mabon’s imprisonment in the ‘Bright Fortress’ of Caer Loyw.

Particularly on the Scottish sìthichean.

Discusses the topographical position of the Irish Otherworld, arguing it was displaced upwards and beyond in a 90º degree shift from an original subterranean and submarine location.

[(In Finnish:) Comparing the Irish sí and the Finnish hiisi traditions.] With English summary.

§3 PIE *sēd-es- [Etym. of OIr. síd].

Discusses the alternative names by which this site was known (Síd nÚamain, Síd nOchaill), and also addresses the question of the origins of Medb and her association with Síd Crúachan.

Discusses the alternative names by which this site was known (Síd nÚamain, Síd nOchaill), and also addresses the question of the origins of Medb and her association with Síd Crúachan.

Discusses the alternative names by which this site was known (Síd nÚamain, Síd nOchaill), and also addresses the question of the origins of Medb and her association with Síd Crúachan.

[1.] Introduction: reference to Síd Truim in poem in Serglige Con Culainn; [2.] Síd Truim and the Tuatha Dé Danann; [3.] Síd Truim as the place of Cú Chulainn’s birth: in first version of tale Compert Con Culainn contained in MS RIA D iv 2 (1223); [4.] Síd Truim as the place of Cú Chulainn’s burial: in poem A Oisín fuirigh ar Dhia; [5.] The location of Síd Truim; [6.] Conclusions.

Hib-Lat. orbis used to convey meaning of OIr. síde, and validity of its English translation ‘otherworld’.

Particularly on the Scottish sìthichean.

Particularly on the Scottish sìthichean.