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would naturally expect Cunacanos with, the common element euna, 

 which we have in Ctmalegi in this yery inscription. Perhaps one 

 might rule out the first score as somewhat irregular in its form, and 

 reduce the number of scores to four, that is ILL! c ; but I confess that 

 I could not satisfy myself that the group is not Uiil ; so I am driven 

 to ask what the reason was for the five scores ? By way of answer, one 

 might possibly suppose the name to begin with a modification of the 



word quenna-, ' head,' or else with one of the words for ' hound,' Mod. 

 Irish CM, genitive con, some of the Aryan congeners of which appear to 

 presuppose a qu rather than the c attested by both Irish and Welsh : 

 in the latter the word for ' dog ' is ci. I do not like either of these 

 conjectures, and, on the whole, I prefer supposing the inscriber to 

 have been careless enough to cut one score too many. I should, accord- 

 ingly, read, not Qmmacanos but Qunacanos, as merely an equivalent 



K.I. A. PKOC, SEE. III., VOL. VI. X 



