8716.
Etchingham
(Colmán),
Swift
(Catherine): English and Pictish terms for brooch in an 8th-century Irish law-text.
In
Medieval archaeology 48
(2004), pp. 31–49.
On the reference in
Bretha nemed toísech
(in
CIH
vi 2223.18-23) to brooches as pledges and the significance of the use of loaned terminology (
briar
from Old English and
catit/cartait
from Pictish) in this legal passage.
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Classifications:
D 1.2.4 Lexical copying (= Lexical borrowing) between Irish (incl. Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and English (incl. Scots)
I 1.2 Society: Law, institutions: Early Irish law
Indexes:
Words/Proper Names:
briar
cartait
cataid
cataigh
catit
Author/Textual Sources:
Bretha nemed toísech