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Related words include the Gaelic caileag and the Irish cailín ('young woman, girl, colleen'), the diminutive of caile 'woman', [1] and the Lowland Scots carline/carlin ('old woman, witch'). [13] A more obscure word that is sometimes interpreted as 'hag' is the Irish síle , which has led some to speculate on a connection between the Cailleach ...
The element *belo-might be cognate with the English word bale (as in bale-fire) meaning 'white', 'bright' or 'shining'. The absence of syncope (Irish sound laws rather predict a **Beltne form) can be explained by the popular belief that Beltaine was a compound of the word for 'fire', tene. [12] [13]
tory – Originally an Irish outlaw, probably from the word tóraí meaning "pursuer". trousers – From Irish triús. turlough – A seasonal lake in limestone area (OED). Irish turloch "dry lake". uilleann pipes – Irish bellows-blown bagpipes. uilleann is Irish for "elbow". usker – From Irish uscar, a jewel sewn into an item of clothing.
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.
Reconstruction of a fulacht fiadh at the Irish National Heritage Park in County Wexford, Ireland. Fulacht fiadh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈfˠʊlˠəxt̪ˠ ˈfʲiə]; Irish: fulacht fiadh or fulacht fian; plural: fulachtaí fia or, in older texts, fulachta fiadh) is the name given to one of many burned mounds, dating from the Bronze Age, found in Ireland.
Similarly, the Corcu Duibne, a people of County Kerry known from Old Irish sources, are memorialised on a number of stones in their territory as DOVINIAS. [48] Old Irish filed, "poet (gen.)", appears in ogham as VELITAS. [49] In each case the development of Primitive to Old Irish shows the loss of unstressed syllables and certain consonant changes.
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The distribution of known, surviving ringforts in Ireland. In Irish language sources they are known by a number of names: ráth (anglicised rath, also Welsh rath), lios (anglicised lis; cognate with Cornish lis), [2] caiseal (anglicised cashel), cathair (anglicised caher or cahir; cognate with Welsh caer, Cornish and Breton ker) and dún (anglicised dun or doon; cognate with Welsh and Cornish ...