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ásaid

889.
Lindeman (Fredrik Otto): Varia: VII. 3. LU 3161.
In Ériu 36 (1985), pp. 193–194.
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.
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14954.
Pyysalo (Jouna): Ten new Indo-European etymologies for the Celtic languages.
In SCF 12 (2015), pp. 62–79.
1. OIr. oenach- ‘an injury/wound’: OSax. ēndago- ‘day of death’: Hitt. ḫingan- ‘Seuche, Pest, Todesfall’; 2. OIr. airecht- ‘assembly, meeting, conversation’: LAv. vyāxa- ‘Versammlung’; 3. OIr. cumachtae- ‘pouvoir, puissance’: TochB. ekaññe ‘possession, equipment’, AV aṣṭi- ‘Erreichung’; 4. OIr. ás- ‘croissance, fait de grandir/grossir’: Maced. ἄξο- ‘ὑλή’; 5. OBret. iolent ‘precentur’: Lat. hariolā- ‘wahrsagen’; 6. MidIr. cīch- (f.) ‘weibliche Brust’: RV. kı̄́kasā- ‘Brust·bein’; 7. OIr. nái- ‘human being, person’: TochA. napen- ‘Mensch’; 8. OIr. tol- ‘Wille’: RV. turá- ‘Willfährig’; 9. OIr. nūadat- ‘hand, wrist or arm’: RV. nodhā- ‘Elefant’; 10. OIr. aiged ‘visage’: OHG agsiunî- ‘species: Aussehen, Angesicht’.
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