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seems to be nominative for an earlier Cunalegis, while avi would be 

 genitive, namely of the word which is in modern Irish iia or 6, genitive 

 iii. One has, therefore, to fall back on ai-e as a nominative. We have 

 the same spelling ave in one of the Drumloghan inscriptions, i and in 

 Old-Irish it became auc. The early form is supposed to have been 

 avias, but whether this became next avia or aven I cannot say, as the 



data are wanting to show whether or not the silencing of the final lV 

 preceded the blending of la into e : on the whole I should be disposed 

 to regard the phonological sequence as — avias, aves, ave, aue, ua, 6. 

 The last difficulty of the reading attaches to the initial consonant of 

 the second name : is it to be read Qtiunacanos or Cunacanos ? One 



- See the Journal of the R- Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland, '1899, pp. 395-7. 



