Category:Irish glossaries

A

This category covers Irish glossaries, both early and late.

B

The same list but using semi-arbritrary subheadings.

Early Irish

[Sanas Cormaic]

» In English: “Cormac’s glossary” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Cormac mac Cuilennáin » Language(s): Old Irish, Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Irish texts on language and literature, Irish glossaries, Text entries

Loman

[O'Mulconry's glossary]

» Initial words (prose): ‘Incipit discreptio de origine Scoticae linguae quam congregauerunt religiosi uiri’ » Language(s): Early Irish, Early Modern Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: Glossary
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Earliest extant Irish glossary.

Irsan

[Dúil Dromma Cetta]

» Form: prose » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries

[Tulchuba briathar]

» In English: “A bowlful of words” » Language(s): Early Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries
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A “collection of Irish poetical expressions with their accompanying explanations” (Hull)

Lost

[Dúil Feda Máir]

» In English: “The collection of great letters (?), The collection of the Great Wood (?)” » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries

Dúil Roscadach

Single-word glossaries

[Lecan glossary]

» Language(s): Irish language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries
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A glossary, or group of glossaries, that is probably best represented by a copy in the Book of Lecan. Unlike Sanas Cormaic or O'Davoren's glossary, which tend to comment on the terms under consideration, it usually provides single words to gloss difficult words. Notable exceptions include §§ 203-222.

[Stowe glossaries]

» Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries
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Three glossaries preserved in the Stowe manuscript RIA MS C i 2. Like the Lecan glossary, these provide single words to gloss difficult words.

[Dúil Laithne]

» In English: “Book of Latin” » Language(s): Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary
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Irish glossary. It contains 291 (+ 11 additional) head-words, typically obscure in nature, each of which is followed by a single gloss in Irish. A good deal of these have been artificially disguised by substituting a letter for its corresponding letter name in the ogham alphabet (e.g. § 148 daurun i.e. dún).

Metrical glossaries

[Forus focal], verse beg. ‘Forus focal lúaidhter libh’

» In English: “Knowledge of words” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Ó Dubhagáin (Seaán Mór) » Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 75 st. » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary
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A metrical Irish glossary (75 qq).

[Deirbhshiúr glossary], verse beg. ‘Deirbhshiúr don eagna an éigsi’

» In English: “Poetry is sister to wisdom” » Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 62 st. » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary
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Metrical Irish glossary, which deals with c.193 head-words in the course of over 6o qq.

[Egerton metrical glossary], verse beg. ‘. . . is gel caindlech’

» Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 29 st. » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary
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Metrical Irish glossary as it stands in the fragment of this text in Egerton 90. It defines 154 head-words in the course of 29 qq.

Predominantly legal

[O'Davoren's glossary]

» Form: prose » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary » Keywords: early Irish law

Late compilations

[O’Clery’s glossary]

» Author(s): Id:Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál) » Language(s): Irish language » Form: prose » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries
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An Irish glossary compiled by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. who dedicated it to Baothghalach Mac Aodhagáin.

Scottish Gaelic

[Kirk-Ó Broin glossary]

» Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish glossaries, Text entries » Type: glossary
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Séamus Ó Broin’s 18th-century copy of Robert Kirk’s Gaelic glossary, which was first found at the end of the Gaelic Bible (An Bíobla Naomhtha, published in 1690). Séamus Ó Broin, a scribe based in Cork, copied this glossary into BL, Egerton 158 and made several additions in Irish. As in the original, the entries are grouped alphabetically under their initial letter (A, B, C., etc.), though no order is apparent within each group.