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572 The Luxembourg folio.
or"m, gorm as gor"m, etc. Even the Anglo-Irish are heard to
say stomm, forum, arum, etc. for storm,form, arm, etc. which
forms a western illustration for Benfey's dissertation on the
Skr. vowel ri in Or. u. Occ.
line 17. ancera (gl. lustram). The reading of the Latin may be lustrant,
but owingto a defect in the Ms it is hard to décide. Moreover
ancera is very obscure. I am inclined to treat it as standing
for ancerd, the stem of the d having faded and so giving the
word the appearance of endingina. Ancerd I identify with the
modem angerdd « aestus, « according to Davies. It is generally
associated with fire, and extensively used metaphorically for
the « brunt « of anything. To answer to this, one wants lustram
to mean « lustre « or « glare ». But I confess the words in ques-
tion baffle me entirely.
doguorenniam (gl. perfundo) looks at first sight as if it were doguo-
ren nam, whence I am inclined to think that the gap is owing
to a part of a letter having faded and that the above is the cor-
rect reading. According to Dr. Davies « rhennaid est genus
mensurae », and Le Gonidec gives renn « mesure pour les
grains, qui vaut à peu près deux boisseaux. 1) Further in the
Oxford extract « de mensuris et ponderibus » we fmd the words
— « in sextario .i. in héstdur mél .i. is xxx hâ guorennieu »;
hère I think « xxx hâ guorennieu « must mean ;< 50 plus an
excess or additlonal quantity. » If so, doguorenniam probably
means « I give over and above the bare measure, give in ex-
cess »; nor is there anything very improbable in the supposi-
tion that this is the meaning the writer attached to the Latin
perfundo.
line 18. hint {g\. peravia) may almost to a certainty be restored and
read as tre dihintion « per avia ». Hint hâs been equated with the
Gothic sinths, and hère it renders «via». Now it is oftener the
équivalent of « iter » than of « via » .
tirolion (gl. agrica) is the plural of tirol «relating to ?/r», land,
which is not to be identified with, or derived from, the Latin
terra : rather is it identical with the Skr, tiram, « shore or
bank»; compare tirio «to come to shore, to land ». Tir is now
masculine, but was probably once neuter like the Irish
tir.
line 19, douolouse (gl. dcpromis). De/jromere seems to hâve meant « to
sing»: see Diefenbach. The Welsh verb as it stands is now