Words and Proper Names

mac léiginn

11636.
Jacobs (Nicolas): Irish influence on medieaval Welsh vocabulary: the case of the gnomic poems.
In Ilteangach, ilseiftiúil [Fs. N. J. A. Williams] (2012), pp. 97–120.
Offers an account of selected instances (both certain and doubtful) of lexical borrowing from Irish into Welsh: MW archan, MW diarchenad (< OIr. acrann?); MW cleirch (< OIr. cléirech); MW cor, dryccor (< OIr. cor, *droccor); MW denghyn (< OIr. daingen); MW graen(n)wyn(n) (perhaps includes OIr. gráin as element?); MW llonn (< OIr. lonn); MW mab llen (< OIr. mac léiginn); MW ochsael/ochsail (< OIr. oxal); MW wynebclawr (< OIr. clárainech).