Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages...

language known as Primitive Irish. These writings have been found throughout Ireland and the west coast of Great Britain. Primitive Irish underwent a change...

goat Irish primitive, Irish landrace, or old Irish goat Scottish primitive, Scottish landrace, old Scottish, or old Scotch goat Welsh primitive, Welsh...

Old Irish is the ancestor of all modern Goidelic languages: Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. A still older form of Irish is known as Primitive Irish...

continental Europe. In Ireland and Wales, the language of the monumental stone inscriptions is termed Primitive Irish. The transition to Old Irish, the language...

level: 103,113. The original Primitive Irish was introduced by Celtic speakers. Primitive Irish gradually evolved into Old Irish, spoken between the 5th and...

Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of Irish, Primitive Irish, which is found in Ogham inscriptions dating from the 3rd or 4th century...

their arguments on the Old Irish that was known from medieval manuscripts rather than on the largely hypothetical Primitive Irish used in the 4th century...

survived into Primitive Irish more or less unchanged in stressed syllables. During approximately A.D. 450-550 (just before the Old Irish period, c. 600-900)...

Ogham stones are found throughout Ireland and neighbouring parts of Britain. This form of written Primitive Irish is thought to have been in use as early...

gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking...

Saint Patrick (Latin: Pātricius; Irish: Pádraig Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠɑːɾˠɪɟ] or Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]; Welsh: Padrig) was a fifth-century...

system used to write Irish since the 5th century, when it replaced Ogham, which was used to write Primitive Irish and Old Irish. Prior to the mid-20th...

i̯, w, m, and a liquid: Old Irish: ben "woman" (< *benā) Old Irish: gainethar "he/she is born" (< *gan-i̯e-tor) Old Irish: ainb "ignorant" (< *anwiss)...

letters. Ceirt (Queirt) ᚊ (Primitive Irish cert) is a letter of the Ogham alphabet, transcribed as Q. It expresses the Primitive Irish labiovelar phoneme. The...

is an Irish and Breton male given name and surname derived from rón, the Irish word for 'seal'. The given name dates back to Primitive Irish in the form...

refers to the letter name. Since the Ogham alphabet dates to the Primitive Irish period, it had no sign for [p] in its original form and the letter...

luis" would support a meaning of "blaze". fern means "alder-tree", Primitive Irish *wernā, so that the original value of the letter was [w]. The kenning...

an early Irish male given name, which also has the hypocoristic and diminutive forms Eoganán, Eóghainin, Eóghain and Eóghainn. The Modern Irish form of...

Old Irish period, onn "ash" was replaced by uinnius. McManus takes this as an indication that the Ogham letter names date to the Primitive Irish period...

Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script. The following Unicode-related...

Irish used in Northern Ireland is primarily of the Ulster Irish dialect, with An Caighdéan (the standardised written Irish of the Republic of Ireland)...

with modern Manx and Irish, is descended from Middle Irish, a derivative of Old Irish, which is descended in turn from Primitive Irish, the oldest known...

of late antiquity contemporary with Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Primitive Irish. Afanasievo culture Tocharians Indo-Aryans The existence of the Tocharian...

the Celtic language family, is as follows Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Early Modern Irish Modern Irish Scottish Gaelic Manx During the historical...

glossed as "apple tree", may in turn be a loan from Germanic into Primitive Irish. The earliest attestation of the rune is in the Kylver Stone futhark...

to strike'. Its original phonetic value in Primitive Irish was [ɡʷ], the voiced labiovelar. In Old Irish, this phoneme merged with g (gort), and the...

and the west coast of Great Britain. Primitive Irish transitioned into Old Irish through the 5th century. Old Irish, dating from the 6th century, used the...

Middle Irish, also called Middle Gaelic (Irish: An Mheán-Ghaeilge, Scottish Gaelic: Meadhan-Ghàidhlig, Manx: Mean Ghaelg), is the Goidelic language which...

dates to the Old Irish period, several centuries after the peak of Ogham usage. Since the Ogham alphabet dates to the Primitive Irish period, it had no...