Challenges the view that OIr. Cothraige is a loan-word from Latin Patricius, and argues that it is a place-name with originally no relation to St. Patrick.

On the use of prose and verse in narrative literature; discusses Irish evidence.

1. Introduction; 2. Old Irish; 3. Middle Irish; 4. From result to consecutive.

[1.] aitire ` surtetyship, surety’; [2.] aire (i) ? ‘lack / increase’, (ii) ‘watching over’.

Tentatively translates allabrig n-aí as ‘one of the two bríg’.

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

ad D. Greene, in Ériu 33 (1982), pp. 163-164. Suggests a correspondence with Lat. nitrum and that sléic meant potash, as a personal detergent, and perhaps also a coloured, friable salt used as a cosmetic.

nothat ‘act of making a loan, borrowing’ (Sg. 6a9, 56b3).

ad R. Thurneysen, in RC 11 (1890), p. 92. On Old Irish glosses in the Old Welsh Juvencus MS.

Reads ro ás gnóe móir in n-ingin (LU 3161) as *roás gnóe móir, ind ingin (with dative of apposition) and translates as ‘she grew with great beauty, the girl’, thus dismissing the claim that ásaid ‘grows’ is impersonal with two accusatives.

On the opposition between earlier voiced -b -d -g and voiceless -p -t -k and its relevance to the development of preaspiration in Scottish Gaelic.

Preposition ó + agent.

On the verbal adjective caite + object used to denote quantity.

ad O. Bergin, Gadelica 1/4 (1913), p. 271 (Best² 270); fear(r) barr < fear bairr ‘extra’.

Asseses the various attempts at an etymology of this word (cf. T. F. O’Rahilly, in Ériu 9 (1923), pp. 18-19, T. S. Ó Máille, in Éigse 11/1 (1964), pp. 20-21, R. A. Breatnach, in Éigse 11/3 (1966), p. 159) and adheres to E. Knott’s suggestion of a derivation from Engl. pleurisy; also on the borrowing of p- as p- and f-).