Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

Notes. 183
1. 602, 603. uraim, uirrim, urraim, 'respect', 'deference', here, ap-
parently, 'homage'.
1. 607. beithreacha , pi. of beithir 'bear', gen. bethrach LL. 247 a .
1. 635. thochbas a scribal error for thochlas, root qal, W. palu 'to
dig'. The Lat. päla 'spade' is perhaps borrowed from one
of the cognate Italian dialects in which q becomes p.
1. 635. feartán dimin. of feart 675, Old Ir. fert, or ferta, a kind of
grave. 'That', says Dean Reeves, 'it originally denoted a pagan
grave of a peculiar form appears from the words et fecer-
unt fossam rotundam similitudinem fertae, quia sic facie-
bant ethnici homines et gentiles, Book of Armagh 12. b. a.,
That it was dug, not built up, appears from the same ms.
3 b 1 ("ad ferti uirorum Feec, quam, ut fabulae ferunt, fo-
derunt uiri .i. serui Feccol Fertcherni.")
1. 646. gillich intended to rhyme with minic, should probably be
gillie a diminutive of gilla, where the ie (ex -inco, -icno?) is y
the first element of the double diminutives in ec-án, -uc-cm
such as Colum cillecán, Isucán.
1. 658. uagnech, now uaigneach 'lonesome', 'solitary', 'secret'.
1. 686. coimheasgur = O'Reilly's coimheasgar (a conflict) = com-
escar?
1. 689. areannta (a reannta?) is obscure to me.
1. 697. traochadh should be traothadh, 0. Ir. tróethad (from trbethaim
I subdue), just as, conversely, cluithe, 731, should be cluiche.
1. 701. as leith astig don aimser sin. Lit. 'it_is on the side within,
it is inside of, that time'.
1. 718. luit gen. sg. of lot, lott 'destruction' Conn., whence loitim
(I destroy).
1. 724. liosta, also in O'Clery's Glossary s. v. emilt. O'Reilly's Uosda.
1. 731. caoineas the abstract noun derived from cáin 'mild, gentle'.
1. 732, 745. abhacht = abhachd, 'humour, pleasantry, harmless
joking', Highland Soc. Diet.
1. 738. caithfedh. Compare caithfidh 'it behoves', O'R., an ccaith-
fidh mé do mhac do bhreith arts don fir asa ttáinic tusa?
(must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from
whence thou earnest?), Genesis XXIV. 5.
1. 748. bioga for bidgad, from bidg (start, fright), ace. pi. bidgu.
H. 2. 17, p. 162.
1. 750. mire ace. pi. of mir, cogn. with ßixQog, Lat. macer (where
pretonic i has become a). In Old-Irish the ace. pi. would
be mirenn.
1. 782. caidriomh, better perhaps caidriobh, O.Ir. '*eoittriub, cf. Con-
trebia the capital of Celtiberia.