Blair Collection > Practical grammar of the antient Gaelic, or, Language of the Isle of Man, usually called Manks

EDITOR 8 INTEODUCTION. IX
Ta ynsagh coamrey stoamey yn dooinney lerchagli; as te herchys yn
Is learning the attire comely of the man rich; and it is the riches of the
dooiwney boglit.
. man poor.
Cronh ghlass foddey voym ; loam loam tra roshym eh.
The hill green far away ; bare bare when I reach it. (" Distance lends en-
chantment to the view." — Campbell's Pleasures of Hope.)
Myr s'doo yn Jeeagh yioiv eh sheshey.
However black the raven, will find he a mate.
EsMn Tiagh goiu rish hriiu erhec, feh deyrey eh hene.
He who will not take with (not allow) judge any, he does condemn him- self.
Caghlaa ohhyr aaish.
Change of work is rest.
EasM lesh dagh cleaysh, eisM jean hriiuyns.
Listen with each ear, then do judgment.
Tn loam leigh loam aggair.
Summum jus summa injuria.
Shegin goaill ny eairUyn marish y cheh.
You must take the horns with the hide. (Job ii. 10.)
In tlie study of the language^, tlie antiquary will find scope
for the exercise of his ingenuity in tracing the origin and signi-
fication of many of the proper nouns and peculiar expressions.
To suggest a few hints in this direction : —
Gaelic, Gailck, Oaelgagh, evidently indicate the affinity of the language and the
race to the old Celtic, or Keltic. " The Galic," says Mr. Shaw, in his Gahc Dic-
tionary, "is the language of Japhet, spoken before the Deluge, and probably the
speech of Paradise."
Bretnee, or Brethnee, the Welsh, the old British ; from hrech, hrith, spotted
(Latin, the Picts).
Sasonee, or Saxonee, the English, the Anglo-Saxons.
Alhin, Nolbin, Albinee, Alpinee, the Scotch (Albania).
Erinee, the Irish.
Frangee, the French, Franks.
Keeil, a church ; probably from lerjll, a grove 5 the Druids' grove being turned into
a Christian church.
Laa-Boayldyn or Baaltine, May-day, when the inhabitants burn fires on the moun-
tains ; the day of Baal's fire, or of the sun, — from chenan, the sun, or chen or teinne
(Scotch), the fire of the sun, which our ancestors worshipped as the mediimi of
adoration of the Supreme Being. (See Kelly's Dictionary, Baaltine.)
Bru'i, a charmer, a druid. Hence, Spvg, an oak.
Druiaghtagh, an enchanter. (Jer. xxvii. 9.)