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In Lang. 16.12–6, I indicated that alongside of som, cases occurred where sa was also employed in archaic Irish as the enclitic emphasizing pronoun of the third person masculine and neuter. After citing several instances that seemed to me reasonably certain, I quoted a few examples which were open to question. Among these, I included focicertsa from the unpublished version of the Bruiden Átha Í in the Yellow Book of Lecan, and I added (16.15) that Kuno Meyer regarded it as ‘a scribal error for fo·cicherr, though it should be noted that in the recension printed from Stowe MS 992 sum apparently replaces sa’.
1 Fianaigecht XIX.
2 Yellow Book of Lecan col. 951, 1. 46.
3 Now MS D. IV. 2.
4 For example, ad·luastur, corrupt for as·lúsar ‘it may have been drunk’, where the perfective aspect of the verb is still expressed by means of the preverbal preposition ess- which is written as· in pretonic position.
5 Ed. K. Meyer, Revue Celtique 11.433 f.
6 Op. cit. 11.446, 1. 69.
7 Cf. A. G. Van Hamel, Compert Con Culainn and Other Stories 51, §69.