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    Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa, Gaeilge Chianach), also called Proto-Goidelic, is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages...
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    language known as Primitive Irish. These writings have been found throughout Ireland and the west coast of Great Britain. Primitive Irish underwent a change...
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  • 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...
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    goat Irish primitive, Irish landrace, or old Irish goat Scottish primitive, Scottish landrace, old Scottish, or old Scotch goat Welsh primitive, Welsh...
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    Ogham (redirect from Ogham Irish language)
    continental Europe. In Ireland and Wales, the language of the monumental stone inscriptions is termed Primitive Irish. The transition to Old Irish, the language...
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    level: 103,113. The original Primitive Irish was introduced by Celtic speakers. Primitive Irish gradually evolved into Old Irish, spoken between the 5th and...
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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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    Saint Patrick (Latin: Pātricius; Irish: Pádraig Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠɑːɾˠɪɟ] or Irish pronunciation: [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]; Welsh: Padrig) was a fifth-century...
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    Gaels (redirect from Native Irish)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    Attacotti (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    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...
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  • Eógan (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    an early Irish male given name, which also has the hypocoristic and diminutive forms Eoganán, Eóghainin, Eóghain and Eóghainn. The Modern Irish form of...
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  • Insular Celtic languages (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    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)...
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    gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking...
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    Rónán (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Éogan of Ardstraw (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    early Irish male name, derived from the Primitive Irish *Iwagenas, and equates to the Welsh Owain and the Latin Eugene. In more modern forms of Irish it...
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  • Forfeda (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    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...
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    Irish used in Northern Ireland is primarily of the Ulster Irish dialect, with An Caighdéan (the standardised written Irish of the Republic of Ireland)...
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    of late antiquity contemporary with Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Primitive Irish. Afanasievo culture Tocharians Indo-Aryans The existence of the Tocharian...
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  • Goidelic languages (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    the Celtic language family, is as follows Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Early Modern Irish Modern Irish Scottish Gaelic Manx During the historical...
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    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...
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  • Lenition (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    resulted in Proto-Celtic *toutā, Primitive Irish *tōθā, Old Irish túath /t̪ʰuaθ/ and ultimately debuccalisation in most Irish and some Scottish dialects to...
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  • Middle Irish, also called Middle Gaelic (Irish: An Mheán-Ghaeilge, Scottish Gaelic: Meadhan-Ghàidhlig, Manx: Mean Ghaelg), is the Goidelic language which...
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  • Anatolian languages (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    *h₃éron-) and Lycian 𐊜𐊒𐊄𐊀 χuga (cf. Latin avus, Old Prussian awis, Archaic Irish ᚐᚃᚔ (avi), PIE *h₂éwh₂s). The three dorsal consonant series of PIE also...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Ogham inscription (category Irish inscriptions)
    around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. The language of these inscriptions is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a...
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  • Declan (given name) (category Articles containing Primitive Irish-language text)
    is an Irish given name, an anglicised form of the Irish saint name Declán, also Deaglán or Déaglán. St. Declán founded a monastery in Ireland in the...
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