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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Ollamh le Sean- ⁊ Meán-Ghaeilge, BARE
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Tá an ceart agat. Tá an chiall "maid, serving-girl" ag SG caile, gan sanasaíocht aitheanta ag an bhfocal de réir LEIA. Ní hionann é seo agus cailleach, a bhfuil iasacht ó Laidin pallium "veil" ar bunús aige. Ní féidir "caile" a dhíorthú ó "caille".
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Breis faoi sin in am trátha.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tá muid.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sin é, gan dabht. Ag bá an cheantair le cacamas.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Níl a fhios agam. B'fhéidir go bhfuil.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
5. forms of ‘self’ starting with f- and c-.

Since then, these features have been honoured chiefly by uncritical echoing; new observations have only been added in a piecemeal fashion. I’ll mention other suggestions as we discuss them, following the order in the PhD we are reading.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
...features that showed variation across the 3 big glossed corpora of Old Irish, the Würzburg, Milan and St Gall glosses.
These are:
1. superlative in -imem;
2. vowel variation in the preverb air-/er-/ir-/aur-;
3. pronoun ón vs. són;
4. lexical doublets with palatalisation/non-palatalisation;
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
...the concrete material on which existing ideas are based. Very little holds up to scrutiny. I will discuss these briefly over a number of News items.
With his trademark caution, Thurneysen mentioned in his Grammar of Old Irish (pp. 12, 104, 306) a small number of grammatical and lexical...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My English review (Journal of Celtic Linguistics 2025): www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...

My review in German, using different examples (to appear in Die Sprache 2025): www.academia.edu/127524899/Re...

Mark's and my assessments are in agreement.
Review of: Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic, 2023 (preprint)
Review of: Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic, 2023 (preprint)
www.academia.edu
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM