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The root is found in Old Irish dub > Irish dubh, Old Welsh dub > Welsh du, Old Cornish duw > Middle Cornish du, Breton du, Gaulish dubo-, dubis, all meaning 'black; dark' Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Latin Borbetomagus : second element from Celtic *magos, 'plain, field', first perhaps related to Old Irish borb 'fierce, violent, rough, arrogant; foolish'
Shannon: Irish Sionann, name of a river goddess, Old Irish Sinann, from sen "old, ancient" [6] Siret: from ancient Thracian Seretos, probably from PIE *sreu = "to flow" Slaney: Irish meaning "river of health" Tay: Celtic river goddess Tawa (Tava, Tatha, "the silent one") [7] Tambre: From Tamaris with the same root that Tamar.
brat – a cloak or overall; now only in regional dialects (from Old Irish bratt meaning "cloak, cloth") brehon – A judge of ancient Irish law. From Irish breitheamh. brogue – (from bróg meaning "shoe") a type of shoe (OED). brogue – A strong regional accent, especially an Irish; callow – A river meadow, a landing-place, from Irish caladh.
A Middle Irish cognate is given when the Old Irish form is unknown, and Gaulish, Cornish and/or Breton (modern) cognates may occasionally be given in place of or in addition to Welsh. For the Baltic languages, Lithuanian (modern) and Old Prussian cognates are given when possible. (Both Lithuanian and Old Prussian are included because Lithuanian ...
Inverness (mouth of the river Ness) Eyemouth (mouth of the river Eye) Since these names refer to rivermouths (or towns built on rivermouths), the elements aber and inver are the generic elements, whereas the other element (typically the name of the river) is the specific element, telling us which rivermouth is meant.
The English word originates in the 17th century. Until the mid-19th century, the sole pronunciation in English was /s/, in keeping with the inheritance of the letter c from Old French to Middle English. From the mid-19th century onward, academic publications advocated the variant with /k/ on the basis of a new understanding of the word's origins.
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic [1] [2] [3] (Old Irish: Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Irish: Sean-Ghaeilge; Scottish Gaelic: Seann-Ghàidhlig; Manx: Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts.
Grafand, an old name for Knockgraffon; Grafrenn; Life/Mag Liphi; Máfat. [6] Gerry Smyth, in Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination, suggested that Dothar, the Old Irish name for the River Dodder, could be a substrate word. [7] Peter Schrijver submits the following words as deriving from the substrate: partán 'crab'