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<text><body><div><p><span>NOTES AND QUERIES</span></p>
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<lb n="2"/><p><span>(119)  Some Meath words:  Tráithín thres'-aCH, the</span>
<lb n="3"/><span>rime or hoar-frost on grass, trees, etc., after white frost.</span></p>
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<lb n="5"/><p><span>(121)  Eadarshuth = eadarshruth, the time of the occu-</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>pation of drawing the srotha.  Sruth is not merely the</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>common, it is the only word down here (South Mayo)</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>for the squirt of milk from a cow's or other mammal's</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>teat.  “Codladh go headruth” is a popular nickname</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>for morning sleepers. — S. O'Raghallaigh, Louisburgh.</span></p>
<lb n="11"/>
<lb n="12"/><p><span>(Ed is an old Irish word for time or a space of time.</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>In the middle or end of a word, old Irish d is as a rule</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>an aspirate, and the modern form of the word would be</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>eadh.  As in many other words, an initial (or “prosthetic“)</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>f has been added, making feadh, as in ar feadh bliadhna</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>for the space of a year.  Cp.  Fiarfhaighe for O.I. iarfaige,</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>fathach = athach, fuar = uar, etc.  In the South, iolar</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>becomes fiolar; in the north, osgail is fosgail.</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>Possibly then eadashruth is eadh sruth.  For the change of</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>dh into d before s, compare bhíod for bhíodh before sé, sí,</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>sinn, sibh, siad, in Connacht and Ulster, and the South</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>Connacht dá mbed's agam = dá mbeadh (mbeidheadh) a</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>fhios agam.  Aslo cp. baisteadh = baiseadh = baith</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>'seadh from O.I. baithis, baptism; and báisteach, rain =</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>báitseach = báithseach, from báith, immerse, drown, an</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>-seach or -sach, a common ending of nouns, as in cláirseach</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>(clár), céirseach or ciarsach (ciar), bonnsach (bonn), etc.</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>Fáistine = fáitsine = fáidh-sine.  This explanation</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>is merely tentative. — Ed.)</span></p>
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<lb n="32"/><p><span>(123) Simple Lessons, II. 331. -agán, diminutive</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>(Aodhagán): -adán is also a diminutive ending, vg.</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>sacadán, a little sack, bolgadán = bolg beag.  Sgadán</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>may be short for iasgadán. — S.O'R.</span></p>
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