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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 English word comes from Old Irish cros via Old Norse kross. crubeens - Pig's feet, from Irish crúibín. cudeigh – A night's lodging, from Irish cuid na hoíche. currach or curragh – An Irish boat made from skins or tarred canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Irish currach.
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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.
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.
The name means "fire" and was the name of a god in Irish mythology. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The name features in the Irish surnames Mac Aodha (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized as McGee / McHugh / McKee ) and Ó hAodha (lit. "descendant of Aodh"; anglicized as Hayes / Hughes /O'Hea), and the Scottish surname Mac Aoidh (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized McKay ).
Gaelic law was originally passed down orally, but was written down in Old Irish during the period 600–900 AD. This collection of oral and written laws is known as the Fénechas [25] or, in English, as the Brehon Law(s). The brehons (Old Irish: brithem, plural brithemain) were the jurists in Gaelic Ireland. Becoming a brehon took many years of ...
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