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A Further Note on Sa, in Archaic Irish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Vernam Hull*
Affiliation:
New York University

Extract

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 Among these, I included focicertsa from the unpublished version of the Bruiden Átha Í in the Yellow Book of Lecan, and I added (16.15) that Kuno Meyer regarded it as ‘a scribal error for fo·cicherr, though it should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’.

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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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