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Graffite du Baou-Roux RIIG (BDR-02-02) ; RIG (G526) Deuxième moitié du IIe siècle de notre ère

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Dimanche 7️⃣ décembre
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Graffite du Baou-Roux

RIIG (BDR-02-02) ; RIG (G526)

Deuxième moitié du IIe siècle de notre ère

Torque d’or Mailly-le-Camp RIIG (AUB-01-01) ; RIG (G275) Moitié Ier siècle

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Samedi 6️⃣ décembre
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Torque d’or Mailly-le-Camp

RIIG (AUB-01-01) ; RIG (G275)

Moitié Ier siècle

From the ridiculous to the sublime.

"Rahm" an focal is coitianta againne, DAS.

Ní raibh a fhios agam an focal "Schmand" ná cad é an rud é.
Ní hionann Schmand agus Schmarrn, ar aon nós.

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Ní focal na Ostaraise é...
Ach is fíor duit. Tá an chiall chéanna ag an bhfocal comhfhreagrach 's againne, sin é "Topfen".

...Particles, Maynooth 1997, 70–83).
The forms in c-, on the other hand, have nothing to do with ‘self’ at all, despite being formally so similar to those in f. Instead, they operate on the sentence level, meaning ‘also, moreover, etc.’
This variation is not useful as evidence for dialects.
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...in distribution between the sources.
However, to cut things short: the difference of forms in f- is synchronically connected with the persons to which they refer. An extensive etymological explanation has been proposed by Peter Schrijver (Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and...
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Beside the plethora of forms with f-, there is also a much rarer word starting with c-, but showing very similar formal variation (eDIL dil.ie/7556). One can see why some scholars thought that this variation revealed dialectal differences, especially since there are significant differences...
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The first feature that the DiⒶgnostic team investigated as an alleged marker of dialectal variation in Old Irish is the word(s) for ‘self’. The screenshot from eDIL (dil.ie/20990) gives an idea of the enormous proliferation of forms meaning ‘self’ in Old Irish sources.
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Mar shampla, "Schmarrn" (seafóid) agus "Powidl" agus "Blunzn" (is cuma...) san Ostarais.

Tá an Ghearmáinis gafa le bia.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Die Scheiße (English translation) Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Die Scheiße lyrics (German) + English translation:

lyricstranslate.com/en/die-schei...

Law is subservient to power.

Tá cáil air i measc na nGael do éacht lasmuigh den Acadamh, i. Iallach a chur ar an Roinn Dlí agus cirt an foirm iarratais ar shaoránacht a chur ar fáil as Gaeilge. Ní gan dua a rinne sé sin.

tuairisc.ie/fearg-fos-ar...

Fangzhe Qiu, FLEXI – Fluid texts and scholars’ digests: (re)production of law in medieval Ireland; URL: https://www.ucd.ie/icsf/en/research/europeanresearchcouncilprojects/flexi/

In 2020, Fangzhe received an Ad Astra fellowship in UCD and became Associate Professor after being awarded his ERC project ‘Fluid texts and scholars’ digests’ (FLEXI), which he started in 2023. With this, he has returned to his big interest in Early Irish law.
🌐: people.ucd.ie/fangzhe.qiu
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Fangzhe Qiu, ‘Old Irish aue ‘descendant’ and its descendants’, Indogermanische Forschungen 124 (2019), 343–374.

Fangzhe Qiu, ‘Verses in the ‘Iona Chronicle’? Textual and linguistic evidence’, in: Ch. Cleary and Ch. Kobel (eds.), Essays in Memory of Eleanor Knott, Dublin: Trinity College Dublin 2023, 157–203.

…on the development of the very frequent, but phonologically difficult word OIr. aue ‘descendant’ (ModIr. Ó) and about marginal poems in the manuscript.
Fangzhe was fourth in a series of yearly recipients of the @ria.ie Charlemont grant that scholars in the Department of Early Irish got 2016–9.
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Tomás Ó Maille, The Language of the Annals of Ulster, Manchester University Press 1910.

The Annals of Ulster are central to determining the development of Old Irish over time because their contemporary yearly entries are believed to reflect the gradual change of the Irish language in that period directly.
Fangzhe’s close study of the annals provided the material for an article…
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manuscript of the Annals of Ulster, TCD MS 1282 (H. 1. 8) f. 31v ©TCD

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Annals and Law

Dr Fangzhe Qiu worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the ChronHib project from 2015–20. His task was the digitisation of the Annals of Ulster, i.e., adding the annalistic entries for the years 554–950 into the CorPH database and analysing the word forms grammatically.
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Every bond is a bond to sorrow,
To sorrow and despair,
Except for the bond to stufflings
Which removeth every care.

!! Ireland has a unique opportunity to end foxhunting on Dec 17th when the Dail will vote on a proposed ban.

Please contact your TDs and ask them to support a ban.

#speirgorm

Print used with kind permission by @katelouisepowell.bsky.social, find her lovely work here: www.etsy.com/ie/shop/Kate...

Engl. "campus" has been borrowed into Japanese as kyanpasu. There must be a palatal quality to the English voiceless velar...

Cogar, cad a chiallaíonn an focal ‘plámás’?
Caint bhog, bladar, moladh gan bhrí, nó duais gan meas a bhronntar ar dhroch-chúis. Mar shampla:
(Grianghraf gan chead FIFA, Foireann Íontach Falsa Aontaithe)

Gach uair a fheicim mé féin i bhfíseán nó i ngrianghraif óna blianta ó shin, is an rud céanna atá mé ag smaoineamh: "Nach raibh gruaig dorcha agamsa an tráth sin?"
...cé go raibh mé den ghruaig liath ansin cheana féin...

Théinnse mar Krampus timpeall an tsráidbhaile nuair a bhí mé óg.

Á, go raibh 1000 maith agat, a Aonghuis, as m'aird a tharraingt ar sin. Ní raibh a fhios agam go bhfuil físeán na cainte seo ar fáil ar an idirlíon, agus mé ag caint as Gaeilge agus mo chuid gruaige réasúnta dorcha go fóill orm...

Ba ag Imbolc 2016, agus é ag caint ar an dtogra seo a chur mé aithne ar @davidstifter.bsky.social agus thosaigh á leanúint i Ríocht an Éin

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Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award 2018, © David Stifter.

…post about the Stowe Missal for the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie (www.ria.ie/blog/bringin...) and he was invited to present a video lecture (www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_P...).
For ChronHib, I received the inaugural Maynooth University Faculty of Arts Award for Researcher of the Year in 2018.
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