Argues that the borrowings into Norse of these Irish words presuppose a semantic evolution ‘heap’ ⁓ ‘head’ > ‘hair of the head’ > ‘hair in general’ ⁓ ‘grass’ already in Old Irish.
Surveys eight publications by Christian Matras (1900-1988) on Irish loan words in Faeroese, focusing particularly on the loans from dronn, bláthach, *slabac, dais, cró, tarb, ScG làmh chearr (< OIr. *lám cherr), muirean (or muirín, muiríneach, etc.), sopp, áirge.
Discusses the areal distribution of two word pairs consisting of loanword and its native counterpart: 1. nàbaidh and coimhearsnach; 2. cuibheall and roth.
Ó Muirithe (Diarmaid): From the viking word-hoard: a dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland.
Dublin: Four Courts, 2010. xxxviii + 301 pp.
Includes words of Scandinavian origin found in Early and Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.
Suppl., 2013, 128 pp.
Rev. by
Alan Macniven, in JSNS 5 (2011), pp. 178-182.
Roderick W. McDonald, in JAEMA 7 (2011), pp. 148-150.
Diarmuid Ó Sé, in Celtica 27 (2013), pp. 213-216.