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bile

2955.
Watson (Alden): The king, the poet and the sacred tree.
In ÉtC 18 (1981), pp. 165–180.
Examines the nature and function of the sacred tree in the pagan Irish religious system and its relation to the social roles of king an poet.
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Schrijver (Peter): On henbane and early European narcotics.
In ZCP 51 (1999), pp. 17–45.
Discusses the etymology of OIr. Beltaine, bill, bille etc. and belletus.
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DiPietro (Michelle): Towards a cultural and chronological understanding of the Irish bile.
In RíM 24 (2013), pp. 1–28.
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Pyysalo (Jouna): Ten new etymologies between Old Gaulish and the Indo-European languages.
In SCF 13 (2016), pp. 47–68.
1. OGaul. asia- ‘secale’: Lith. asỹ- ‘Schachtel-, Schafthalm’; 2. OGaul. nemnali- ‘célébrer’: RV. námna- ‘sich beugen/neigen’ [OIr. nemnall]; 3. OGaul. mapalia- ‘kindlich’: TochA. mkälto- ‘jung, klein’ [OIr. macc]; 4. OGaul. mas ‘gl. metallum’: TochA. msāṣ ‘imo : from beneath’; 5. OGaul. cunobarro- (PN.) ‘Tête-de-Chien’ : CLu. paraia- ‘hoch’ [OIr. barr]; 6. OGaul. marco- ‘horse’: TochA. markä- ‘move’ [OIr. marc]; 7. OGaul. slēbino- ‘montanus’: TochB. ṣale ‘mountain, hill’ [OIr. slíab]; 8. OGaul. cobro- ‘love, desire, greed’: TochB. kakāpo- ‘desire, crave, want’ [OIr. -chobur, (ad-)cobra, etc.]; 9. OGaul. mallo- ‘langsam, träge’: TochB. mālle ‘dull’ [OIr. mall]; 10. OGaul. bilio- ‘Baum’: TochB. pilta- ‘leaf, petal’ [OIr. bile].
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