Studies the etymology and semantics of Irish expressions denoting ‘death’ as occurring in the texts, with the aim of retrieving the Celtic attitudes towards death.
Vernet (Mariona): Gr. βάλλω ‘I throw’, OIr. a-t:baill ‘he/she dies’, Lat. ualleō ‘to die’: some considerations on the reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *gwelh1- ‘to pass away, to die; to throw’.
Supplements the traditional account of the syntax of at-bail with the description of an additional usage where subject of the verb expresses what is lost and the direct object the person who undergoes the loss.