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Éire

8741.
Vennemann gen. Nierfeld (Theo): Zur etymologie von Éire, dem Namen Irlands.
In Sprachwissenschaft 23/4 (1998), pp. 461–469.
Proposes a Semitic etymology, viz. +'y-wr’(m) ‘Isle of Copper’.

Republ. in Europa vasconica - Europa semitica / by Theo Vennemann. Ed. by Patrizia Noel, Aziz Hanna (Berlin 2003), pp. 729-736.
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