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II § 55 —
Long recension, § 55, ed. A. G. van Hamel, Compert Con Culainn and other stories (1933).
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Co h-oimolc .i. taite ind erraig .i. imbe a folc .i. folc in erraig ⁊ folc in gemrid. Nó oí-melc .i. oí isind écsi ainm na cóerach. Is de asberar oíba, ut dicitur conba, echba, duineba, amal is ainm do bás ba. Oímelc dano is sí aimser andsin i tic ass cóerach ⁊ i mblegar cóerig, unde oisc .i. oí sesc .i. cóera sesc.
While the short recension is incompletely preserved, it opens in the middle of Cú Chulainn’s exposition on seasonal terms, suggesting that it formerly contained the same etymology. Cf. Sanas Cormaic O § 1001. Óimelc. Further reading: Éimear Williams, ‘Bealtaine and Imbolg (oimelc) in Cormac’s Glossary’, Studia Celtica 39 (2005); Eric P. Hamp, ‘Imbolc, Óimelc’, Studia Celtica 14-15 (1979); Joseph Vendryes, ‘Imbolc’, Revue Celtique 41 (1924); Fergus Kelly, Early Irish farming: a study based mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD (1997): 460.
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Imbolc
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milk; sheep;
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Ir. oí-melc
Ir. Imbolc
Ir. Imbolc
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related: Sanas Cormaic
