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Username: Dmd
Post Number: 51
Registered: 09-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 03:58 pm: |   
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Would anyone know the etymology of Naoscach the Irish for Snipe? I have vague recollections of being told in Corca Dhuibhne onetime that it was an + aoscach or something similar that referred to marshy ground.
Have searched a lot of books and on-line without success. Thanks in advance.
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Ormondo
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Username: Ormondo
Post Number: 637
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 04:15 pm: |
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Acoording to McBain's Dictionary:
naosga
a snipe, Irish naosga: *snoib-sko-, root sneib, snib of English snipe?
Is geal leis an bhfiach dubh a ghearrcach féin.
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