Hostname: page-component-89b8bd64d-z2ts4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-07T07:10:51.991Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Notes on Irish Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Myles Dillon
Myles Dillon*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Information

Type
Miscellanea
Information
Language , Volume 17 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1941 , pp. 249 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © 1941 by the Linguistic Society of America

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1 Isidore may derive from Pliny, Nat. Hist. 7.2.23. The words ipse latratus . . . confitetur are quoted from Augustine, De Civ. 16.8. Herodotus 4.191 and Strabo 16.4.16 place the in Africa.

2 For Greek and Latin sources, and especially for references to Ktesias, see W. Reese, Die griechischen Nachrichten über Indien bis zum Feldzuge Alexanders des Grossen. I am indebted to Professor S. L. Wallace for advice, and in particular for calling my attention to the article Kynokephaloi in Pauly-Wissowa.

3 Legenda Aurea C, ed. Graesse, 430.

4 Professor Kenneth Jackson has kindly called my attention to the Welsh form, and supplied the references.