Re: Lat. gladius and Sorothaptic

At 5:19:48 PM on Saturday, August 25, 2012, Rick McCallister
wrote:

[Old Irish <dindshenchas>:]

> So how is it pronounced?

/d'in(d)henxǝs/, where the apostrophe indicates
palatalization, and the /(d)/ was already silent in late Old
Irish.

> My best guesses are jinhenxas or jinhenjaS (the spelling
> is inconsistent in that there is no second broad vowel in
> the final syllable

Early Irish spelling doesn't follow the 'broad to broad,
slender to slender' rule.

Brian