[tied] Re: Cymerians?

--- In cybalist@..., "Christopher Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>...
> Not speaking of Germanic and Romance languages, Ireland and

Scotland

> in the 7th century AD had the following languages spoken: in

Scotland

> there was Pictish, Cumbric and Gaelic and in Ireland Gaelic (with
> perhaps some Pictish, though this isn't confirmed by written or
> onomastic evidence).

And Ivernian, Cormac mac Cuilennain (king-bishop of Cashel (capital
of the kingdom of Munster in Ireland)), who died in 908 AD (not 1908)
wrote in a book called Beulra (= Glossary):-

> and ... Ivernian. It has recently died out. Of it, only these two
> words are now known:-
> `fern' = "anything good"
> `ond' = "stone".
> "Ivernian" is called `the Iron-speech' because it is dense and
> difficult.

[but actually, by his time Irish `Iwern-' = "Ivernian" and `isern- =
= "iron" had fallen together as `iarn'.]

> `clach' [Irish for "stone"] has 3 names [including] `onn' from the
> Iron-speech.