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Carey (John): The name Tuatha Dé Danann.
In Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 291–294.
Argues that the derivation of OIr. *Danu from a Common Celtic source is a false assumption; Túatha Dé Danann results of the disambiguation of the term Túatha Dé ‘old gods’.
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