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Primitive Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dallos. The alternative form ᚇᚐᚂᚑ (dalo) appears to be the genitive singular of an i- or u-stem and so may be etymologically unrelated.
Pronunciation
Noun
ᚇᚐᚂᚔ (dali) m
- blind man
Quotations
c. 4th to 6th century C.E., “MONAT/2”, in Celtic Inscribed Stones Project:᚛ᚇᚐᚂᚐᚌᚅᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚇᚐᚂᚔ᚜- dalagni maqi dali
- Dalagnos, son of the blind man
Usage notes
It is possible that this term functioned as a given name for a specific blind man.
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References
Further reading
- Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, volume I, Dublin: Stationery Office, pages 118–19
- Ziegler, Sabine (1994) Alfred Bammesberger and Günter Neumann, editors, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften (Historische Sprachforschung; Ergänzungsheft 36) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 164