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Corbmacc
@erisceres.bsky.social
Amateur linguist with an interest in diachronic and diatopic Gaelic linguistics.

I have a new blog that explores diachronic developments in Déise Irish:
gaoidhling.wordpress.com
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Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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"These disparate sources have never before been brought together in a way that offers such an insight into the nature of Celtic languages spoken in these islands at the dawn of the historical period."

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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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December 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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With the DiⒶgnostic team filled for the moment, we are now making good progress with the project.
In news item 12 in August, I announced that Truc Ha Nguyen, a postdoctoral researcher in the project, was compiling a list of all Old and Middle Irish texts included in...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live:

ogham.celt.dias.ie

Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.
Ogham
ogham.celt.dias.ie
September 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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One interesting rule of #irish #grammar that many people struggle with, but it seems well alive in native Irish. A 🧵.

If a proper name (of person or place) is referring to the name itself, & not to a specific person, it’s treated as indefinite after the copula.

#gaeilge #gaelainn #gramadach
May 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🎆 LAUNCH 🎆

The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated

𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database

Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie
When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30

@maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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This article looks at the history and development of Old Irish grammars: the pre-Thurneysian past, Thurneysen's Grammar of Old Irish and its central position in current Celtic Studies, and what future grammars will look like.

A preprint of the article: www.academia.edu/143690919/Wh...
Where do we go from here?
Old Irish grammars - past, present and future
www.academia.edu
August 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end.
With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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A huge shipment of my books on ogam inscriptions & Cisalpine Celtic has just come in, incl. the Spanish translation of my ogam book! (Plus books on Gaulish & Celtiberian.)
My books will be on sale in the Maynooth bookshop (shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-L...), the @nmireland.bsky.social shop...
June 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@davidstifter.bsky.social Very interesting lecture today, thanks! You mentioned yourself and team have currently identified 300+ synchronic variations in Old Irish.

1) Is any of that data currently published anywhere? I'd love to see it whenever it is published.
May 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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A full month has passed since the last DiⒶgnostic News, owed to the Easter break and other major matters and occurrences that required my attention.
Before I continue speaking about the revision of the CorPH database, I want to give an update of other project-related activities.
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May 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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One for your diary:

Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture by David Stifter

"Linguistic Contributions to a Model for the Celticisation of the Western Archipelago"

Thursday 8 May, 17:00
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Register at: www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/event/8...
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Anybody who has used the CorPH database of Old (and Middle) Irish texts in the past (chronhib.maynoothuniversity.ie/chronhibWebs...) will have made the experience that it is – to put it mildly – not easy to use. For this reason, a complete overhaul of the user interface of...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A special issue for today’s St Patrick Day, to highlight one of the wider aspects of the DiⒶgnostic project (@researchireland.bsky.social), namely the prehistory of Irish. The project’s main research question of dialectal variation in Old Irish is – directly or indirectly –…
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March 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Forthcoming in @ria.ie in summer:

Rebecca Shercliff, Old Irish: a Beginner's Guide

shop.ria.ie/products/old...
Old Irish: a beginner's guide - pre-sale
This book will be published in July and sent out the week of publication Medieval Ireland offers an unusually rich and varied corpus of literature, including saga, law, religion, pseudo-history and po...
shop.ria.ie
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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A Latin-English-Gaelic dictionary begun in 1712 by Father Francis Walsh of Dublin. It was purchased by Marsh's around 1743 for £20. We went with the entry on trees as it's #NationalTreeWeek as well as #SeachtainnaGaeilge!

See the full manuscript on ISOS: www.isos.dias.ie/MARSH/MS_Z_3...
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For anyone interested, Áine Uí Fhoghlú's 2004 UCC MPhil thesis "An briathar mí-rialta i nGaeluinn na nDéise" is now publicly accessible and well worth a read!
cora.ucc.ie/items/e95a65...
An briathar mí-rialta i nGaeluinn na nDéise
Tá an saothar taighde seo bunaithe ar thuairim is triocha uair an chloig dʼabhar a dheineas a thaifeadadh ar fístéip idir 1990-ʼ94 i measc na gcainteoirí is fearr a bhí i nGaeltacht na Rinne agus an t...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The guide below is written to help you understand phonology, phonetic descriptions, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A.) (written by @erisceres.bsky.social)

irishlanguage.ie/a-guide-to-p... #gaeilge #irishlanguage
A Guide to Phonetics - IrishLanguage.ie
The below guide written by Erisceres (and posted with permission here), is aimed to be a guide to understanding phonology, phonetic descriptions and the
irishlanguage.ie
February 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Yes, they are at least etymologically related, namely both being forms of the present participle of the IE root *bʰerg̑ʰ- "high, to be high". The Brigantes < *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥t- are simple the masculine plural form of the participle "the ones being high/lofty/elevated". And Brigit < *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥tih₂- is the...
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February 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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For the saint that's in it today, the etymology of the name "Brigit":

Modern Irish Bríd [ˈbʲrʲiːdʲ] < pre-reform Irish Brighid < Old Irish Brigit [ˈbʲrʲiɣʲədʲ] < Primitive Irish *Brigēddī [ˈbriɣɛːdːiː] < Proto-Celtic *Brigantī < Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥tih₂- "high one, elevated one (fem.)".
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February 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Good video about misrepresentation of minority cultures (Celtic ones specifically here) in fantasy fiction. From an “insider” actually raised in one of those cultures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-1EOObzso

#minoritycultures #minoritizedcultures #celtic #welsh #Fantasy
January 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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www.duchas.ie/en/cbe/90006...
nách álainn an scríbhneoireacht so athá le feiscint ar @duchas-ie.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I hardly dare to believe it but it seems that over 20 curse tablets in Gaulish have been discovered in Orléans: france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/centre-val-d...
Happy days! 🫣🤩😍
The one in the photo is the one known since 2023, which, I surmise, we will now have to call Orléans 1.
Des tablettes de malédiction mises au jour sur un chantier avec des textes d'un intérêt scientifique majeur rédigés en langue gauloise
Alors que les fouilles archéologiques sur le chantier de l’ancien hôpital Porte Madeleine à Orléans prennent fin, les scientifiques s’attellent à présent à décrypter les 21 tablettes de malédiction ex...
france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr
January 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM