MacNeill — Notes on Irish Ogham Imcriftions. 357 



L. Arm., Setnai AU 562, nom. Setna, mod. Seadna = *Sedanias, from older 

 Celtic *Scntanios. 



Corrbri 47, Coribiri 183 (with helping vowel inserted, proving palatali- 

 zation) = Coirjjri, nom. Goirprc, later Cairhre. 



Conuri .60 (of. Conunett = Cunanetas, u either neutral or through forward 

 influence of u in Cun- transformed into o) = Conairi, nom. Conaire. 



Lugiini 115, 153 = Lugne-us Adamn,, later Lugna, Lv.glma. 



Carl 136 = Caire BB 122a28. 



Veducuri 175 (Barry) = Fidchuiri, nom. FidcJiuire, Ciarraige and other 

 pedigrees. 



Valuvi 242 = Fdilbi, nom. Faille, Fdilhhe. 



Melagi, J, 1896, p. 28, nom. Melagia[s] 224, = 3felge. 



7. Genitives in -oi are mucoi passim =ms. moccu indeclinable, Vedllioggoi 

 54 — *vedili =fedl- in FedUmitk, Fedlimith, and the feminine name Fedelm 

 (superlative ?) L. Arm. 



8. Genitives in -ai : Carricai 6,muco fterai 78 and mocoi Q,erai 79 = maccu 

 (for moccu) Ciara in Mid. I. MSS., containing the eponym of Ciarraige (nom. 

 wrongly restored as Ciar in genealogies), Gerrige L. Arm., Eraqetai 165, 

 Mogai 170, Veqoanai 199 = nom. Fiaclma, Senai 222, ftetai J, 1895, p. 102. 



9. Genitives in -ais occur in two inscriptions : Gebbais maqi Tanais 10^ 



Bir maqi mucoi Rottais 218. I cannot refer these to any known declension. 



The twofold occurrence in 10 may indicate artificial treatment. None of the 



names can be identified, except that Rottais 218 being eponymic may be 



referred to Ilothraige. 



Genitives in -las. 



10. Genitives in -ias are chiefly found in feminine nouns, although such 

 nouns may become the names of males, as in the case of the name-element 

 Mclel followed by a genitive, and in Gossucttias, Anavlamattias, which I take to 

 be feminine abstract nouns used as male appellatives. 



11. -ias becomes transitionally -ia, late Ogham and MS. -e. Sometimes 

 -eas, -ea are found, possibly through imperfect archaistic restoration. 



12. Genitives in -ias belong (1) to feminine r/-stenis, (2) to feminine 

 «ct-stems, (3) to feminine ? -i-stems. 



13. Feminine «-stems (Gaulish gen. -es, " Icgionis secundes ItaUces"). 

 Ercias 32, 197, Erccia 31, Erca 23. The last ends an inscription, and may 



possibly have been Erce, otherwise -a represents the broadening of -e by a 

 preceding group of consonants, which, as MS. usage shows, has resisted 

 palatalization. The MS. genitive is Free in Adamnan and Free, Frcac, Frca, 

 in AU. The MS. nom. is Frc = Ogham Erca in Erca-vicca. In Cormac's and 

 O'Davoren's glossaries, crc is explained = nem, ' heaven,' but it is frequent as a 



