On the etymology of OIr. rí and rígain and related forms.

[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.

On the contemporary relevance of the later commentaries.

1. Text of IGT II §20; 2. Corpus of examples; 3. Index of poets in the corpus; 4. Discussion; 5. Statement of conclusions: incl. rules for the construction of article + uile + noun in dán díreach.

[1.] The relationship between the MSS of V [= the longer recension contained in MSS RIA 23 E 25, RIA D iv 2, Harley 5280, RIA 23 N 10, RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), Egerton 92]; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 96-100; [2.] The lost portion of R [= the shorter recension contained in MS Rawlinson B 512]; [3.] The relationship of V and R; [4.] The language of R and V; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 102–18; [5.] Old and Middle Irish in V; [6.] Conclusion: V is an expanded version of R.

1. Introduction; 2. Cía in Early Irish adverbial clauses; 3. Cía in complement clauses; 4. Summary and conclusions.

Incl. app. with collection of references to dependent noun clauses and verbal noun phrases in a range of textual sources.

vs. GOI §689 (a). On the etymology of do-fúaid, -dóid, -dúaid, do-fúatar, do-fótar, -dótar, -dúatar, do-feotar, etc.

On the terms rannaigecht ‘unitary-stanza-making’ and deibide ‘differentiated, disagreeing (form)', the latter representing a substantivised adjectival derivative from deibe ‘difference, variety, disagreement’ + adjectival de, vs. GOI §392, where it is suggested that deibide derives from de + bíthe ‘cut in two’.

1. On the absence of a before (transitive) verbal nouns when the object is not present in dialects of Donegal and Kerry; 2. ad J. McCloskey, in Ériu 46 (1995), pp. 159–164; addition of an example of ‘subject object a + verbal noun’ from Co. Waterford; 3. ad P. Mac Cana and D. P. Ó Baoill, in pp. 266-267 of Dán do oide: essays in memory of Conn R. Ó Cléirigh (Baile Átha Cliath 1997): on the use of impersonal forms of auxiliary verbs (tá, déan) with non-finite forms of the main verb.

Derives from *wo + nās-ı̄ (with Germanic congnates) which shifts semantically from ‘light a fire, make burn, heat’ to ‘cook, bake, boil’; also on the derivation of vn fuine from *wo-nes-o-.

Provides 38 additional identifications to the 354 provided by D. McManus, in Ériu 48 (1997), pp. 83–101. Cf. D. McManus, in Ériu 51 (2000), pp. 193-194; 54 (2004), pp. 249-251; 55 (2005), p. 145.