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Preface. xvii
rature, a dictionary, I have added full Indices Verborum. This
addition has added much to the size of the book, but I hope it
will be found to be a practical contribution to Irish lexico-
graphic materials.
In conclusion, I -wish to direct the attention of such of my
readers as may not be members of the Irish ArcliKological
and Celtic Society to a work published by that body, which
contams much that illustrates the subject of the following passes,
or that is actually supplementary to them, namely, Irish Glosses,
a mediceval tract on Irish Declension, tvith examples explained in
Irish, to which is added the Lorica of Gildas, with the Glosses
thereon, and a selection of Glosses from the Book of Armagh,
edited by Whitley Stokes, A.B.
In point of varied learning, skill, and cautious discretion in the
grammatical analysis, the work is unquestionably the best con-
tribution to the comparative philology of the Celtic languages
which has yet appeared in the English language, and may fully
rank with any similar works by German or French scholars. It
is at once a valuable and a timely contribution towards the
materials for making an Irish dictionary, and as such the Archae-
ological and Celtic Society has well expended its funds in the
publication of it.
The most valuable feature of the work in question, so far as
regards the Celtic Studies of Dr. Ebel, is the large number of
paradigms of the declension of Irish nouns and adjectives which
it contains. For the purposes of reference, I think it will be
useful to enumerate them all.
Masculine, neuter, and feminine a- and a-stems : nom. sing, cenn, stem cinna
(masc), p. 39 ; nom. sing.forcetal (n), stem forcitala (neut.), p. 51 ; nom. sing,
masc. mall, an adjectival stem, p. 97 ; noin. sing, rann, stem rannd (fem. d-
stem), p. 38 ; nom. sing, dia, a masc. a-stem, p. 45.
]\Iasculine and feminine lastems: nom. sing, raniiaire, stem rannaria (masc.'),
p. 37 ; nom. sing, caile, stem calid (fem.), p. 54 ; nom. sing. masc. nu'e, an adjec-
tival m-stem, p. 97.
Masculine and neuter t-stems; nom. sing, fditfi, stem fdthi (masc), p. 36;
nom. smg.^/iss, stem Jissi (neut.), p. 117.
Masculine ?<-stems : nom. sing, bith, stem hithu (masc), p. 62.
Masculine <-stems : nom. sing.Jili, stem Jiliai (masc), p. 3G.
Masculine ^--stem : nom. sing, ri, gen. rigi, a masculine g-stem, p. 119.
Feminine n-stem : nom. sing, talam, stem talaman, p. 48.
.i4n<-stems : nom. sing, cara, stem carat, from carant (masc), p. 65. A para-
rature, a dictionary, I have added full Indices Verborum. This
addition has added much to the size of the book, but I hope it
will be found to be a practical contribution to Irish lexico-
graphic materials.
In conclusion, I -wish to direct the attention of such of my
readers as may not be members of the Irish ArcliKological
and Celtic Society to a work published by that body, which
contams much that illustrates the subject of the following passes,
or that is actually supplementary to them, namely, Irish Glosses,
a mediceval tract on Irish Declension, tvith examples explained in
Irish, to which is added the Lorica of Gildas, with the Glosses
thereon, and a selection of Glosses from the Book of Armagh,
edited by Whitley Stokes, A.B.
In point of varied learning, skill, and cautious discretion in the
grammatical analysis, the work is unquestionably the best con-
tribution to the comparative philology of the Celtic languages
which has yet appeared in the English language, and may fully
rank with any similar works by German or French scholars. It
is at once a valuable and a timely contribution towards the
materials for making an Irish dictionary, and as such the Archae-
ological and Celtic Society has well expended its funds in the
publication of it.
The most valuable feature of the work in question, so far as
regards the Celtic Studies of Dr. Ebel, is the large number of
paradigms of the declension of Irish nouns and adjectives which
it contains. For the purposes of reference, I think it will be
useful to enumerate them all.
Masculine, neuter, and feminine a- and a-stems : nom. sing, cenn, stem cinna
(masc), p. 39 ; nom. sing.forcetal (n), stem forcitala (neut.), p. 51 ; nom. sing,
masc. mall, an adjectival stem, p. 97 ; noin. sing, rann, stem rannd (fem. d-
stem), p. 38 ; nom. sing, dia, a masc. a-stem, p. 45.
]\Iasculine and feminine lastems: nom. sing, raniiaire, stem rannaria (masc.'),
p. 37 ; nom. sing, caile, stem calid (fem.), p. 54 ; nom. sing. masc. nu'e, an adjec-
tival m-stem, p. 97.
Masculine and neuter t-stems; nom. sing, fditfi, stem fdthi (masc), p. 36;
nom. smg.^/iss, stem Jissi (neut.), p. 117.
Masculine ?<-stems : nom. sing, bith, stem hithu (masc), p. 62.
Masculine <-stems : nom. sing.Jili, stem Jiliai (masc), p. 3G.
Masculine ^--stem : nom. sing, ri, gen. rigi, a masculine g-stem, p. 119.
Feminine n-stem : nom. sing, talam, stem talaman, p. 48.
.i4n<-stems : nom. sing, cara, stem carat, from carant (masc), p. 65. A para-
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| Description | From the German of Dr. Hermann Ebel : with an introduction on roots, stems, and derivatives, and on case-endings of nouns in the Indo-European languages by William K. Sullivan. |
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| Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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