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Username: Dmd
Post Number: 71
Registered: 09-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 08:57 am: |   
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Quote: "Cígire is another of those words based on a misunderstanding".
This was posted on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 08:08 am by Unregistered Guest.
I haven't been able to source the etmology of cigire, would the original poster have it?
Thanks in advance!!
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Seánw
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Username: Seánw
Post Number: 544
Registered: 07-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 09:16 am: |
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Preface to De Bhaldraithe:
“... cigire (invented by Tadhg Ua Neachtain who misread cighim, in Lhuyd’s Irish-English vocabulary (in Archaeologia Brittanica, 1707) as cigim and then added cigire, cigireacht, cigirim, in his unpublished Irish-English dictionary, 1739).
I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.
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