Tionscadal na Nod

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in cruth sin (example)

Image:

Source: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii], p. 61bFile:

Letters displayed:

<ictsi / icti>

Base form in image, without marks, as it may appear to the untrained eye.

Represents in Irish:

in cruthsin / in cruth sin

In the scribe’s mind or in normalised spelling.

Appearance

Build type:

Example

Characters include:

i with suspension stroke

Represents: in, i(), ingen (Irish)i() (Latin)

Notational device: Superscript symbol

and

sin (suspension stroke)

Represents:

sin

Notational device: Superscript symbol, Digraph

Components include:

ur (superscript wavy)

Represents: □ur, □ru, u□ (rare) (Irish)

and

spiritus asper

Represents: □h (Irish)

Notational device: Allograph Allograph of:  punctum delens (lenition)

Comments

A nearly continuous string of superscript symbols, consisting of a suspension stroke (on top of the letter i), a wavy ur-symbol (on the c), a somewhat sloppy version of a spiritus asper (on the t) and lastly, another suspension stroke (on the si digraph).

Meaning

Represents:

In Irish: in cruthsin / in cruth sin

Context

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