Notes on Monataggart Ogham Inscriptions. 353 



III. By Whitley Stokes, LL. D., M. R. I A., Calcutta. 



The Monataggart inscription is interesting, and (I doubt not) 

 rightly transliterated.' Cannot the gg of -leg get be read lenget, as in Greek 

 yy is = vy ? Thus dosreggat for dosrengat occurs in the Liber Mym- 

 norum, fol. 21 b. top margin. In the Book of Armagh, 17, b. 1, 

 dir-roggel, 186. 1, and nu^abad stand for dir-ro-n-chel, nu-n-galad ; 

 and Mr. Hennessy can doubtless supply many other instances. In 

 the len-get or -slenget which we thus get, we may possibly have the 

 Old Irish cognate of the Teutonic slingan ' torquere,' and glun(s)lengel 

 would seem to have been a name or a nickname, meaning one whose 

 knees were (or whose knee was) twisted. Compare the Latin name 

 Varus ' knock-kneed.' I merely throw this out as a conjecture for 

 consideration. I think that in the modern Irish leigim 'I cast' 

 (= 0. Ir, lecimm : — cf. dol-leci ' he cast,' LH., tar-laic LL) initial 

 p = Teutonic/, has been lost as usual, and that the word is identical 

 with the English fling, Old Norse flangia. This, of course, has no 

 connexion whatever with the Latin lego. 



As to the proposed reading of legget as lenget, it may be worth 

 noting tbat gg = ng is very common in Old and Middle Welsh : e. g., 

 loggau, ' naves' (longan, Ir. luing), Lyggesaue (= Lyngesauc for 

 LOingfecri). See more in Zeuss, Grammatica Celtica, Edn. Ebel, p. 

 117. 



Of the practice of disguising words by the introduction of arbitrary 

 ingredients, there are, I think, at least three examples in the Amra 

 Choluimbchille, to wit : 



Col-ua-in \ 



per metathesim > = Coluin ' flesh.' 



Con-ua-il ) 



an-ua-im = anim, ' soul.' 



In a poem contained in a note to the Eelire, Jan. 15, we find 

 uas-uc-an, ' above us.' 



In the notes on the Amra, contained in Zebor na Huidra, fol. 7 a, 

 are several examples of the disguising words by the addition of a word 

 or a syllable. Those are ten-d, 'fire;' terc-da, gand-on ("on" hie exe- 

 mitur, says the glossographer) and ann-6n. In the poem above referred 

 to we find dothisat-an. 



