Abstract
This article looks at Common Celtic *tegos ‘house’ (cognate with Ancient Greek (s)tegos ‘roof’) in Continental and Insular Celtic sources over a span of some two millennia. It is discovered that the only modern Celtic-speaking areas to preserve the Old Irish nominative singular teg ‘house’ were the dialects of Clare and Tipperary - where teh survived (a form yet to be identified until these findings were published).
The survival of multiple by-forms such as teagh, teach,tigh, toigh ‘house’ in the medieval bardic Irish Grammtical Tracts show the uniqueness of this body of grammatical material in a European context, as it catered for the dialectal rather than insisting on a centralised form.
The survival of multiple by-forms such as teagh, teach,tigh, toigh ‘house’ in the medieval bardic Irish Grammtical Tracts show the uniqueness of this body of grammatical material in a European context, as it catered for the dialectal rather than insisting on a centralised form.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Mélanges en l'honneur de Pierre-Yves Lambert |
Editors | Guilliam Oudaer, Gaël Hily , Herve Le Bihan |
Place of Publication | Rann ar Brezhoneg Skol-Veur Roazhon-2 Plasenn Recteur ar Moal CS 24307 35043 ROAZHON Cedex |
Publisher | Université de Bretagne Occidentale |
Chapter | 16 |
Pages | 139-183 |
Number of pages | 45 |
ISBN (Print) | 9782917681275 |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 1 Jun 2015 |
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