Stories from Keating's History of Ireland - National Library of Scotland

;78 NOTESdh', note that the d oi do {= do and de) is frequently lenited whenthe preceding word ends in a vowel sound ; cf. 9, 8 16, ii 24, 2 ; ; ; 25, 44 ;similarly dhd, 2, 99; 7, 28; 23, 108; 31, 287. The next stage is to dropthe d altogether, as is often done in the spoken language.agallmha, the gen. of agallamh, here used as dat. (but agallaimh,2. ;33) cf. 26, 109, and comhagalltnha as nom. or ace. 5, 51.24. Uigeadh, older form of vn., cf. 12, 7, 43, 60; so teilgeadh, 11, 30,and tréigeadh, 8, 70 ; but the forms in -ea?i are also common in the MSS.Cf. Uigean, 27, 27, 56; tréigean, 8, 61.25. sgéidhis, &c., 'he ejected the oppressive burden of his sickness.'31. eiste, older form of aiste, aisti.32. is eadh do saoilti: the old neuter eadh is found in such phrases withreference to a following clause, where present-day usage substitutes themasc. é. Cf. 15, 17; 25, 122. Cf. ni headh anihdin, 23, 55.ris gach n-aon : ris here = leis. re gach n-aon would also be correctcf. is gach, 5, ;47 leis gach, 15, 36; 23, 93 ; the s is due to the analogy ofthe forms with the art., ris an, leis an, san (= isan), as an. gach is ace.after re, hence the eclipsis of aon.da gcluineadh : dd = dea;' (every one) that heard,' lit. ' of those thatheard.' gach with the antecedent generally takes the partitive de beforethe relative clause; cf. 7, 21 ; 12, 67.34. .i. a Latin abbreviation for id est, read in Irish as eadhón, O.Ir.ed on, that ' is it '; sometimes it is a variant of mar atd in MSS.35. gach a mhionca, 'as often as.' mionca, now minicidhe, is theabstract noun of nieinic. The proleptic a comes from phrases such asdd mhionca, 'however often,' 7 a mhionca, 19, 42, and ar a mhionca, 23,213. It cannot be gacha mhionca, for the gen. gacha does not aspirate.37. trénar bdsuigheadh. Sec, lit. 'through what had been put to deathof men by him ' ='at the number of people he had put to death.'38. OS aird, 'openly '; cf. ós (seal, 'secretly,' 5, 30.39. shin amach, 'from that (time) forward ' ; shin, ó shoin (14, 2S),sin (23, 151, 225), and d soin, are all found in the literature; the lasttwo have now been confused with as sin.2. THE SLAYING OF THE CHILDREN OF UISNEACH5. Uisneach, used as gen. also in lines 30, 45, 47, &c., but Uisnigh,58 and 81. An older form is Uisleann, O.Ir. Uislenn, gen. of Uisliu.The form Uisneach seems due to confusion with the name of the hill inWestmeath.6. Con-Loingeas, older Conn Loingeas, 'head of the bands of exiles,'but the main stress being on the second word. Conn was reduced and lostits declension. Cf. Meis-Geaghra, 3, 7; Maoil-Seachlainn, 27, 3, andDearbhorgaill, 30, 8.