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Definition of Old irish
1. Noun. Irish Gaelic up to about 1100.
Definition of Old irish
1. Proper noun. The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries A.D. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Irish
Literary usage of Old irish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... and the old Irish race. " It is observed," he says, " That ever since his
Highness's Ancestors had this Nation in Possession, the Old Natives have heen ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THILO (Rheinisches Museum, Neue Folge, XIV. 132-133) was the first to call
attention to the Old-Irish glosses, which are found in the abridgments of ..."
3. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"No clear allusion in very old Irish MSS. to dancing. ... to lyric music in general;
Cor, in the plural Cuir, an old Irish word tor music, perhaps connected ..."
4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... figures them on the gaunt old " Irish Greyhound pig ; " and N athu- sius states
that they occasionally appear in all the long eared Fig. 4. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The following is a literal translation from the old Irish text:— Christ in the
poop, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me, The strong virtue of ..."
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